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 Side-effective programs are written via monadic monads, resembling [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org/) and [TypeScript](https://www.typescriptlang.org/):
 
 ```javascript
-// Prints the double of every numbet up to a limit
+// Prints the double of every number up to a limit
 Main : IO (Result () String) {
   ask limit = IO.prompt "Enter limit:"
   for x in (List.range limit) {