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> there wasn't any functional programming ...This is 100% imperative

What distinction are you drawing between functional and imperative programming? This is not a trick question. Simon Peyton Jones has described Haskell as "the world's finest imperative programming language", and one way of interpreting my Haskell effect system Bluefin[1] is "purely functional imperative programming". I don't think functional and imperative are are mutually exclusive, in fact, I don't think they're even at odds. I think they're both at their best when combined.

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/bluefin



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