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cubefox 3 hours ago  [ - ]

Problem specifically in Haskell is that you have to worry about implementing tail recursion to get efficient stack usage. That's not necessary for loops, which Haskell doesn't support. Though other functional languages do support them.

tome an hour ago  [ - ]

Haskell most definitely supports loops:

    ghci> :{
    ghci| for_ [1 .. 10] $ \i ->
    ghci|   print i
    ghci| :}
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8
    9
    10
It doesn't require loops to be implemented at the language level, however. The language is rich enough to support user-defined loop constructs.