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Article #600Re: Why functional languages?
From: Annius Groenink
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 08:11
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 08:11
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tmb@arolla.idiap.ch (Thomas M. Breuel) writes: >Well, in SML, that would be: > I( > Don( Q( t( > think( > so()))))) (bang). >That doesn't look any prettier to me. Sorry, I didn't mean to actually merge into the discussion. I'm more in favour of more friendly languages such as the Haskell- family. In fact, the only thing I know about Lisp is that is uses lots of )))))))):) -- Annius Victor Groenink Universiteit Utrecht PTT Research Leidschendam Mathematics/Comp. Sc. avgroeni@cs.ruu.nl +31 70 3325445 (weekdays) Atari ST/Music A.V.Groenink@research.ptt.nl +31 70 3464732 (evenings) _____________My opinions are my opinions____________ +31 5700 29396 (weekends)
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!spider.research.ptt.nl!freyr!annius From: annius@sif.research.ptt.nl (Annius Groenink) Subject: Re: Why functional languages? Message-ID: <annius.717754299@freyr> Sender: usenet@spider.research.ptt.nl (USEnet News) Nntp-Posting-Host: sif.research.ptt.nl Organization: PTT Research References: <1992Sep26.212935.26809@eng.umd.edu> <1992Sep28.120225.9524@odin.diku.dk> <TMB.92Sep28144424@arolla.idiap.ch> <annius.717696151@freyr> <TMB.92Sep28223555@arolla.idiap.ch> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 08:11:39 GMT Lines: 21