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In the end, any program must manipulate state. A program that has no side effects whatsoever is a kind of black box. All you can tell is that the box gets hotter. -- Simon Peyton-Jones, a major contributor to the functional programming language Haskell.
http://oscon.blip.tv/file/324976
The next Haskell will be strict. -- Simon Peyton-Jones, a major contributor to the functional programming language Haskell.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1924061