Haskell IO Monad
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Haskell introduced IO monad as if to overcome the awkwardness of explanation, how come a function can have a side-effect.

Here is the trick they use in Haskell. Take the State Machine Monad, as we did before. Imagine that A, the state set, represents the whole outside world, and X is the set of function results.

In this model, every state machine becomes a function. A is further represented as a cartesian product of two String sets, the first component being "input", and the second - "output". Special transition functions are introduced, one, getc, pops a character from input; the other, putc, adds a character to output.

I am just curious, what exactly does this model try to achieve.