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		29athrowaway on Oct 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Erlang? And then all that is undone and ran in a processor with registers which is essentially imperative with shared mutable state again. Congrats

hazbo on Oct 3, 2024 [–]

Does this logic not basically invalidate anything that isn't imperative at a high level that eventually runs on a processor? Like, "why bother writing Haskell? It just gets compiled and ran imperatively." Isn't the whole point that you can reason about Haskell?

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