On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 6:38 PM, David Rajchenbach-Teller <
David.Teller@univ-orleans.fr> wrote:

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I wouldn't classify Erlang as "pure": sending
> and receiving messages -- which are two of the most important primitives in
> Erlang -- are definitely side-effects.
> Also, asynchronous error-checking, Mnesia, etc. look quite impure to me.
>
> I also vaguely remember Simon Peyton-Jones declaring something along the
> lines of "The next Haskell will be strict".
>
>
There was a strict compiler for Haskell, whatever happened to it? Most times
I found it cumbersome to deal with the performance effects of default
laziness.

Best,

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