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codygman on Jan 15, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Clojure?

I don't think I'd call the IO monad "dirty" since it's still pure. Also "dirty" make it sounds like a hack.

dllthomas on Jan 16, 2015 [–]

Pure manipulation of values describing impure computation.

codygman on Jan 16, 2015 | [–]

Good point.

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