[anon_d]

> writing imperative code in functional languages almost invariably sucks.

I don't agree at all!

Haskell is extremely pleasant for imperative programming. There's a learning curve for sure, but you get a lot in return. (STM is one small example). I would much rather write imperative Haskell than Python.

It does gets messy when you start writing really low level code (direct pointer manipulation, etc). And it sucks for small scripts (too much project boilerplate, small standard library). But those are the only real pain-points.