Haskell puts all side effects in the IO monad, which passes around the
RealWorld. This is unsatisfactory for a number of reasons, and Haskellers have spilled much ink on effects systems.
As I recently noted, there are
distinctions in how one handles effects at the logical level: in particular,
randomness is different from array writes.
C has a reputation for being a "hacker" language, in contrast to say Haskell, which is abstract with ties to logic and category theory. There is even the quip "C is a portable assembler".
Logic programming fails for many reasons; interestingly it fails to integrate
with imperative programming or export its constructs. Haskell's monadic
I/O—explicitly passing a RealWorld—offers a nice demonstration.
Egison advocates a pattern-match oriented style of programming and offers poker hands as an example:
My Apple compiler started as an experiment in what I would implement as compiler for an array system. Several parts did not pan out so I offer my warnings and advice to other array language implementers.
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