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

[William Yager]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Richard A. O'Keefe <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz>
wrote:

>
> The print statement has an EFFECT.  That effect is not a
> *SIDE* effect.  Here's the definition of "side effect":
>
> 1. A subsidiary consequence of an action, occurrence,
>    or state of affairs; an unintended secondary result.
> 2. An effect (usually for the worse) of a drug or other
>    chemical other than that for which it is administered
>
> In the case of the little program above, the fact that
> output is sent to a destination is neither subsidiary,
> nor unintended, nor secondary, nor other than that for
> which the program was constructed.
>
> I flatly deny that "UNINTENDED ... results" are what
> attracts ANYONE to programming.  Effects, *YES*;
> *side* effects, NO.
>


Wrong definition, my friend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_effect_(computer_science)
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