Of what use is 'lambda'???

[Jonadab the Unsightly One]

ge at nowhere.none (Grant Edwards) wrote:

> Which means that you can not do things like like file-system or
> network operations (or even console I/O) in a strictly
> functionaly language.   Right?

That was the obvious conclusion I made.  Well, in a *purely*
functional language.  (Apparently "strict" has a special 
nonstandard meaning for functional programmers...)

- jonadab