[Haskell-cafe] Why purely in haskell?

[Hugh Perkins]

On Jan 9, 2008 5:43 PM, Derek Elkins <derek.a.elkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> A shorter and lighter and and also interesting and entertaining read is:
> http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Papers/haskell-retrospective/index.htm
>
> While the reason Haskell was pure was to support laziness, at this point
> though it's safe to say Haskell "insists" on being pure no more than
> water "insists" on being wet.

Wow, cool presentation.