
Episode 158: Rich Hickey on Clojure
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Haskell
Another way of handling state in purely functional immutable languages are monads. A monad has nothing to do with concurrency, right? So you can't use the same construct for the two different jobs in Haskell. Also, it's while there are libraries for closure, I think the concept is much more powerful in a language like Haskell where the type system is helping a lot.
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