Use Haskell for shell scripting
I don't know much about Haskell, but I thought it had some properties to isolate side effects, but the code he gives:<p><pre><code>    main = do
        cd "/tmp"
        mkdir "test"
        output "test/foo" "Hello, world!"  -- Write "Hello, world!" to "test/foo"
        stdout (input "test/foo")          -- Stream "test/foo" to stdout
        rm "test/foo"
        rmdir "test"
        sleep 1
        die "Urk!"
</code></pre>
Clearly doesn't (it creates a directory, writes in a file, removes that file and that directory all in one go without anything indicated by the function <i>main</i>. Is it because it's the main function of the program, or am I missing something?