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In article <1993Jan21.134744.4873@lth.se> d92mbe@efd.lth.se (Martin Bergendahl) writes:
>>there is concurrent Clean for the Mac available by ftp from University of Nijmegen which also offers the scope for stand-alone applications.
>
>How large is it?  Can you do good applications with it? What is the
>difference between concurrent Clean and Standard ML? 

They're pretty different.  The Clean people will tell you how.

> Is Clean, Gofer or maybe Dylan the future for FPL on mac? 
> Answers, comments please!

As far as I'm aware, Dylan isn't a pure functional language (or
released?), so that leaves Clean or MacGofer, at the moment. 
I see these as complementary rather than competing systems.

MacGofer is an interpreter, and so is good for prototyping, or teaching.
It runs in 1M.  The Gofer language is similar to Haskell.  

Clean is a compiler, which produces fast standalone applications, and
so is good for development.  There is a built-in converter from a more
conventional syntax to Clean.  Clean memory requirements tend to be
higher than MacGofer (but still acceptable on a reasonably well-equipped
Mac).

Try both, see which you like best: they're both free.

Kevin

[Incidentally, I'm planning to release a new MacGofer in the next few days,
 so you might like to wait before grabbing it from Glasgow...]
-- 
Dept. of Computing Science, Glasgow University.    E-mail: kh@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk

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