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Re: Admin tools - idea from left field



On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 01:55:54AM -0600, David Welton wrote:
> Scheme is often described as a functional programming language,
> although it certainly isn't purely functional 

That's why Scheme is what people call an impure functional language.
More precisely, Scheme is a strict and impure functional language,
where the opposite - lazy and pure - describes Haskell.


        Antti-Juhani
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