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Why is Haskell (sometimes) referred to as “Best Imperative Language”?

I consider it a half-truth. Haskell has an amazing ability to abstract, and that includes abstraction over imperative ideas. For example, Haskell has no built-in imperative while loop, but we can just write it and now it does: while :: (Monad m) => m Bool -> m () -> m () while cond action = … Read more

What is the difference between declarative and imperative paradigm in programming?

A great C# example of declarative vs. imperative programming is LINQ. With imperative programming, you tell the compiler what you want to happen, step by step. For example, let’s start with this collection, and choose the odd numbers: List<int> collection = new List<int> { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 }; With imperative programming, we’d step … Read more