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What Makes a Language an Array Programming Language?

The Array Cast

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Is Haskell a Pure Functional Language?

The question is, what is considered idiomatic used are the is the average Haskell or BQN or APL programmer. And even for that matter, Haskell, it's a pure functional language but there are corners of the language where you can do a bunch of unsay stuff and start writing code like C. If the norm was for everyone to be doing like C low level stuff and pointer mapping and whatnot, it wouldn't have the same reputation. Anyways, that's one take, whether it's correct or not is a different conversation. Do people have comments about anything that I've said in the last couple minutes?

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