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In <C17n7s.Cs2@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> kh@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Kevin Hammond) writes:

>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.

I'm not an official spokesman but I know something about
Concurrent Clean.
First of all it is based on graph rewriting (it actually is a
graph rewriting language).
You can develop full flavoured Mac applications with it
(here someone wrote a multiple window text editor with it).
The code that is produced by the compiler is rather efficient.
(The editor is about as fast as any editor on Mac can be!).
The compiler comes with a integrated development environment
(no debugger however). There is also a simulator available to let you trace
concurrent clean programs.

There is a library available (actually is being completed now)
that supports a very high level gui programming environment.

All this is (or will be) available for anonymous ftp
at ftp.cs.kun.nl in directory pub/Clean (I think).
There is also a version available for Sun3/Sun4 (of the compiler,
the above mentioned gui librarie will also be available for sun4
within short time).
I think that one can use the compiler for any non-commercial activities
(but more about this can be found in the docs I think).

>> 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.

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Hope this helps,


Leon Pillich
University of Nijmegen, Holland
email: leonp@cs.kun.nl
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