<div class="gmail_quote">On 20 January 2012 14:38, Ahmed Al-Saadi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thaterlangguy@gmail.com">thaterlangguy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>A good indication that a programming language is purely functional is its use of monads.</div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>This is nonsense. Mercury is a pure functional/logical language. It does not use monads. Clean is a pure functional language. It does not use monads. I <b>think</b> Pure is a pure functional language too. It doesn't use monads to my knowledge.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In the meantime monads are easily available in Scheme/Racket, ML, Perl (!) and Clojure. These are not pure functional languages (and one of them isn't a functional language at all!). (They're less easily available in C++, Ruby and Python, incidentally.)</div>
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