[clean-list] Clean's answer to the Functional Achilles-heel (fwd)

[alanh@dcs.kcl.ac.uk]

Mark Phillips wrote
> 
> The Achilles-heel of functional programming seems to be interaction
> with the outside world.

I tried (so far, just once) to teach the Object IO library to a 3rd
year class.  These students had been brought up on Java and very
little else.  One of them said, when asked, that the OIO style 
led to shorter code than the equivalent Java.  This must be good.

Regards
Alan Hutchinson