[Haskell-cafe] Re: How to do this in FP way?

[Achim Schneider]

Thomas Davie <tom.davie at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > One half of all Haskell coders will tell you that mutable state  
> > isn't a
> > good starting point to learn Haskell, the other half will tell you
> > the same because they want to be cool kids, too.
> 
> And the one left over will point out that he asked how to do this
> the FP way, not the imperative way?
> 
There's no difference, as you can't do time-accounting non-strict and
still expect it to give meaningful results: I'm merely trying to be
helpful. None of the other solutions allow for the IO Monad. 

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