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by smanek 6400 days ago
He never said that. He just said the "Haskell-ish beauty goes out the window," which is arguably true.

In my (limited) experience, Haskell code to do I/O (i.e., Monads) isn't a pretty or elegant as purely functional Haskell code. A lot of Haskell's useful tricks (i.e., its beauty like the ridiculously strong type system or lazy evaluation) don't work on code with side effects.