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by codygman 3476 days ago
> (I like to think of this as pretty similar to the Haskell IO monad. At some point you have to break out of your cozy side-effect free code and actually do something. At that point you have to deal with the messy real world.)

And Haskell is excellent for dealing with the aforementioned messy real world. Better than any of the previous languages (for 1000+ loc) I've worked with.