Pure functions in D

[renoX]

bearophile a écrit :
> renoX:
> 
>> No, I'm not interested in Haskell, as long as I can't learn monads
>> I'm not interested<
> 
> My idea is that you can start learning Haskell, doing practice,
> learning how you do I/O, etc, even if you don't know what they are.

I don't like magic, perhaps it's because I learned assembly language too 
early but I had the same issue with OO languages: until I managed to 
understand how inheritance worked, it was always bugging me..

Unfortunately monads are *way harder* to understand than inheritance!

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> Note that monads are used in F# too, and I presume in few
> months/years we'll see them in Scala too ;-)

F# being impure, I wonder if monads are used often in F#?


 >And currently Haskell is
 > one of the most interesting languages to learn, even more interesting
 > than Prolog :-)

YMMV: Learned Prolog and Lisp at school, never used those and didn't get 
any interest in using them from the school lessons, and I feel the same 
about Haskell: a language for researchers, nice for melting your brain 
sure, but not something I'm interested in: functional language are not 
my thing.

D's users being practical guys, I doubt that I'm alone in my desinterest 
in Haskell.

renoX