Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why purely in haskell?

On 09/01/2008, Yu-Teh Shen wrote:

I got question about why haskell insist to be a purely FL. I mean is there any feature which is only support by pure?

Have a look at the ueber-retrospective on Haskell, fifty-five pages of all the history and motivation one could possibly want. http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/history-of-haskell/ It's interesting reading, I promise! ;-) D. -- Dougal Stanton dougal@dougalstanton.net // http://www.dougalstanton.net