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by kqr 1160 days ago
Haskell's abstractions build on the inherently stateful nature of computers – how do you think Haskell compilers do their job?

(Not to mention that Haskell and its base libraries have plenty of abstractions useful also for the programmer to deal with the inherently stateful nature of computers, e.g. the IO type, STM, State (it's in the name!), Channels, etc.)