Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> [And if you wanted to split hairs, Haskell is a pure-functional 
> >> language, while Lisp isn't.]
> > 
> >   A pure-functional language which has things like indexable arrays and
> > assignment? Hardly.

> Really? And indexable arrays are impure because...?

  Because it's not a feature of the functional programming paradigm,
but the imperative programming paradigm.

  Purely functional languages are mostly impractical.

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                                                          - Warp

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