Re: [Haskell-cafe] On the purity of Haskell

On 30/12/2011 00:16, Sebastien Zany wrote:

Steve Horne wrote:

I haven't seen this view explicitly articulated anywhere before

See Conal Elliott's blog post The C language is purely functional http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functional. Thanks - yes, that's basically the same point. More concise - so clearer, but not going into all the same issues - but still the same theme.