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Launch the missiles!

Adam Keys Code, Curated October 9, 2008 0 Minutes

The A-Z of Programming Languages: Haskell – a great interview with the awesome Simon Peyton-Jones on Haskell. I love his use of the “launch the missiles!” metaphor for thinking about side-effects and IO in programs. Via projectionist.

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