[Nix-dev] Use Haskell for Shell Scripting

[Lucas Paul]

The Typed Racket idea is pretty good. I would point out, however, that
it only addresses the type-safety concern Joe brought up; not purity.
It's still pretty idiomatic Typed Racket to use side-effects and
mutation from otherwise pure code.

On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 12:57 AM, Michael Raskin <7c6f434c at mail.ru> wrote:
>>Chicken or Scheme are not at all what at all what I was suggesting as they
>>offer nothing in the way of purity or type-safety, which are the primary
>>motivation for suggesting Haskell.
>
> Typed Racket? (Racket, as it got named when PLT Scheme developers
> decided they added too much into Scheme and need to rename)
>
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