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by mrkeen 657 days ago
Maybe the author was trying to avoid potential fallacies that follow that phrase around though:

* If you don't have side effects, you can't do anything.

* Haskell can do things? Then it has side-effects, so it's not functional.

* Computer getting hot is a side-effect.

* i++ is not a side-effect, because I intended to do it.