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

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Answer 1

In addition to what other's have already mentioned, having side-effecting actions be first-class is sometimes useful. Here's a silly example to show the idea:

f = sequence_ (reverse [print 1, print 2, print 3])

This example shows how you can build up computations with side-effects (in this example print) and then put the in data structures or manipulate them in other ways, before actually executing them.