[gumby]

This is such a great article, the summary of which is “I/O is hard”, which every programmer surely knows (and if they don’t, they haven’t tried).

Ok, it’s a great article for other reasons too.

[jandrese]

Everything works great until the real world gets involved.

[gumby]

Also that pure functional code? “Side effects: can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em”. And that’s all inside the machine.