#60: Haskell: purely functional and statically typed programming language

Haskell is a purely-functional programming language. It is also statically and strongly typed. Haskell takes these characteristics to the extreme. For example, doing any input/output is considered impure from a functional programming point of view. So in some books, a simple “Hello, world” example appears as late as in chapter… 9.

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