<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 23 jan 2012, at 18:28, Jon Watte wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">What does "pure" mean anyway?<div>The reason we run computer programs is to enjoy their side effects.</div><div>If a program does not change some observable state (display, disk, network, etc) then that program is useless to any user.</div>
<div>This is why every functional language actually used to build applications has some way of dealing with (and generating) side effects.</div><div><br></div></blockquote></div><div><br>Think of your self as part of a grand scale state threading, it just make sense.</div><div><br></div><div>/Tony</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Sincerely,</div><div><br></div><div>jw</div><div><br clear="all">
<br>--<br>Americans might object: there is no way we would sacrifice our living standards for the benefit of people in the rest of the world. Nevertheless, whether we get there willingly or not, we shall soon have lower consumption rates, because our present rates are unsustainable. <br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Abdul Fattah Mahran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abdoo.mahran@gmail.com">abdoo.mahran@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi All,<div>I want to know if Erlang pure functional programming language or not? I can't find a clear document that states this. If someone can tell where I can find this information in Erlang documentation it will help a lot.<br clear="all">
<div><br></div>Thanks<br>Best Regards,<br>Abd El-Fattah Mahran<br><br>
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