Re: Is Miranda the one?

Article View: comp.lang.functional

Article #949

Back to comp.lang.functional Previous Next

#949

From: Antoni Diller
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:59

26 lines
1501 bytes

In article <dt4.723949863@persimmon> dt4@persimmon.ucsb.edu (David E. Goggin) writes:
>Hi!
>
>We just finished a class in prograamming languages here, and
>We used Miranda (not LISP) as the preeminant example of
>functional languages.  I am wondering whether everyone out there
>believers that Miranda is the BEST functional language?
>
>I have lloked thorugh several books on Comparative
>programming lanuages and none mention Miranda,  but o
>do mention LISP, LOGO, Hope, and a few other obscure one.
>
>*dt*
>.

I don't think that it makes sense to say of any programming language
that it is the best; it rather depends on what you want to do with it.
For some things Miranda is very good and at others it is lousy; similarly
with Lisp.  Eg, if you want to do meta-programming then obviously you
won't choose either Miranda or ML; you'll probably go for Lisp.
So, you first need to decide what you want to do with your functional
language and then you are in a better position to decide which one
is best for that purpose.

Antoni Diller

Technical Details

Message-ID: <BzB07G.2Ku@cs.bham.ac.uk>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!news.cs.bham.ac.uk!ard

References: <dt4.723949863@persimmon>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!news.cs.bham.ac.uk!ard
From: ard@cs.bham.ac.uk (Antoni Diller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
Subject: Re: Is Miranda the one?
Message-ID: <BzB07G.2Ku@cs.bham.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Dec 92 13:59:39 GMT
References: <dt4.723949863@persimmon>
Sender: news@cs.bham.ac.uk
Distribution: comp
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
Lines: 26
Nntp-Posting-Host: fattie

Reply to Parent Message