On: The seven programming ur-languages (2021)

[epgui]

python, javascript, pretty much any language that is popular. I believe everything in Haskell is an expression, even the do notation, no?

But I think the argument being advanced is that the distinction between statements and expressions is fundamentally unnecessary. I don’t really know of any good argument in favour of them: I tend to think lisps have the perfect and simplest possible syntax.

[colonwqbang → epgui]

Python, Lisp and Javascript don't require functions with side effects to be declared in a particular way. Haskell does.

[epgui → colonwqbang]

The question was about expressions vs statements, not about the IO type.

[colonwqbang → epgui]

I was replying to the point programmer_dude made in his comment.

[gumby → epgui]

Yes, that is indeed the point I was making. And yes, I’m a lisp programmer.