From cb9182f9eda2d04918fde12aa0fa072d46e2234b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Valentin Gagarin Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:58:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: don't mention Haskell sometimes it's these little things that let beginners stumble at the first step... mentioning one potentially foreign concept while introducing an entirely new concept is asking enough already. --- doc/manual/source/introduction.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/manual/source/introduction.md b/doc/manual/source/introduction.md index 76489bc1b..e70411c11 100644 --- a/doc/manual/source/introduction.md +++ b/doc/manual/source/introduction.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ # Introduction Nix is a _purely functional package manager_. This means that it -treats packages like values in purely functional programming languages -such as Haskell — they are built by functions that don’t have +treats packages like values in a purely functional programming language +— packages are built by functions that don’t have side-effects, and they never change after they have been built. Nix stores packages in the _Nix store_, usually the directory `/nix/store`, where each package has its own unique subdirectory such