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seanmcdirmid on June 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Concurrency is the New Memory Management

Haskell is nothing but indirect action (lazy evaluation...), which is why referential transparency is so important to the language.

codygman on June 30, 2014 [–]

In my experience referential transparency increases simplicity and readability in most languages.

seanmcdirmid on June 30, 2014 | [–]

Yes, but so does keeping your code first order, avoiding callback functions even without the hazard of side effects.

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