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0 pointsdllthomas11y ago0 comments

Of course, historically, there's the argument that Haskell's purity was motivated by its non-strictness. "Wearing the hair shirt" and all.

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chriswarbo11y ago· 1 in thread

Well, the motivation was to be pure. Non-strictness removed the temptation to extend the language in non-pure ways, either intensionally or accidentally, for the sake of convenience.

dllthomasOP11y ago

You're right, of course. Though if they had cheated, the result probably would have been less interesting.

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