From: kaz@kylheku.com   
      
   On 2014-09-21, Anton Ertl  wrote:   
   > ...   
   > So SML is an imperative language and a functional language then.   
   > These days one tends to avoid that, because with mutable state, you   
   > don't get referential transparency, and without referential   
   > transparency, you miss out on some benefits of functional languages;   
   > but in earlier times people did not know how to live without mutable   
   > state, so they had mutable state in functional languages.   
      
   Those people haven't gone away, and in fact there is more of them.   
   So the functional languages that dropped mutable state simply   
   dropped users. :)   
      
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