Features
The language Clean first appeared in 1987 and is still being further developed; it shares many properties with Haskell: referential transparency, list comprehension, guards, garbage collection, higher order functions and currying and lazy evaluation.
An integrated development environment (IDE) is included in the Clean distribution.
Clean's method for dealing with mutable state and I/O is done through a uniqueness typing system, in contrast to Haskell's use of monads. "The uniqueness type system also allows the Clean compiler to generate efficient code because uniquely attributed data structures can be destructively updated."
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