[Haskell-cafe] Why Haskell is beautiful to the novice

[Kosyrev Serge]

Tobias Dammers <tdammers at gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 01:41:52AM -0700, Alexey Muranov wrote:
>> IMO, what attracts a big part of kids to programming is the possibility to 
>> program side effects.
>
> What attracts them are the effects. Implementing them as side effects is
> largely a choice the designers of their language have made for them.

How very nicely put!  Alexey's statement had bugged me quite the same,
and your formulation is just about exactly what I would have said.


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