Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Well, "functional" tends to mean two things: referencial transparency, 
> and first-class functions. 

Erlang has first-class functions as well as closures. Indeed, there are 
warnings in the docs saying things like "take care if you store a 
closure in a database that when you fetch it back out to run it, you're 
running the same version of the interpreter." :-)

>> How does Haskell handle things like the function for "the time right 
>> now"?
> 
> Sure. To the nearest picosecond, anyway. You can also measure CPU time 
> instead of wall time of you want. You'll need a monad, obviously. ;-)

I think I'll have to find a good explanation of monads again. :-)

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