When you casually read your functional programming book, flip a page and find a juicy meme 😂

Pretty sure you can write "Hello, world" in the repl and it will print it out in the screen

@beegC0de must be delightful cracking jokes around you at a party hehe

Just a friendly banter so don't get offended:)

Lol the real explanation is even larger than that

@aerfromenes except the joke is based on completely false information and isn't clever at all. Now if it mentioned brainfuck instead...

@beegC0de I mean I'm pretty sure the joke actually referred to how challenging things that we consider simple can become in a pure functional programming language more than actually printing anything anywhere but sure... hello world repl print :)

main = putStrLn "Hello, World!"

whew, he must be overcomplicating it

@beegC0de dude

It's a joke

It isn't meant to be "accurate" or whatever (what joke ever is accurate?), It's an exaggeration of how many people perceive functional languages

And since you've mentioned brainfuck: considering it only consists of 8 instructions, I think it's fair to say that it's a much simpler language than Haskell

@Krokoklemme simple spec != Simple to use

@beegC0de I never said that it's easy

I said it's simple. Two different things

@Krokoklemme I'm saying brainfuck looks unintelligible no matter what you write, but you could figure out exactly what a hello world program is doing if you read the Haskell code pretty easily