[Gllug] Logo as a first language

[Nix]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Richard Jones announced authoritatively:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:52:29PM +0000, Nix wrote:
>> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Richard Jones stated:
>> > Whoa there ... Some of us are lucky enough to write ML programs for a
>> > *living*.  I'd rather pull my fingernails out than write something in
>> > Java again.
>> 
>> You are Chris `brainiac' Reade and I claim my dozen monads, SML-based
>> GUI, and Special Spicy Hot Haskell-flavoured Curry.
>> 
>> (classic quote from Chris: `I/O isn't important in real programs. Only
>> computation matters.')
> 
> Luckily (OCa-)ML is a practical functional language, and actually lets
> you do all the useful stuff like IO and mutable variables without
> complaining ...

Via monads, I presume? :)

(Chris's I/O quote predates the monad wave, I think.)

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