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Oh, well I can agree with that.
It's a bit of a tangent, but if you're doing something completely deterministic and non-interactive, like computing a digit of pi, it's great in practice as well. I use Haskell semi-regularly for that kind of thing.
You could argue printing the output is a side effect, but is a side effect followed by termination really "side"?
I agree.
I think it is a side effect if it runs on a modern Os. But honestly who cares...