On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:26:19 -0500 (EST)
Patrick M Doane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
I think a really good beginner's tutorial on I/O could be
started from this
paper:
- Start immediately with using the 'do expression' and
don't
worry about the history that led to its
Erik Meijer wrote:
Nope, I also think that Haskell is the world's finest *imperative* language
(and the world's best functional language as well). The beauty of monads is
that you can encapsulate imperative actions as first class values, ie they
have the same status as functions, lists, ...