Re: Why functional languages?

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From: John Farrell
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 04:54

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In <1992Sep26.212935.26809@eng.umd.edu> clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) writes:
>   So, I'm interested in why you wanted to do work in this area, and
>also what you think the important kinds of questions or work will
>be done in the area, either now, or in the future.

  I think functional language compiler writers will be addressing a question
which is very important for compiler writers for all languages:

  Why does that other compiler produce better code than mine, and how can I
  change mine to do the same thing?

For functional language compiler dudes, they are a heck of a long way away
from a C compiler, but on the other hand they have referential transparency
to help them along.

John

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