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Re: Types, arrays, generality, and notation (was: Fortran90 and Arrays)

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From: Stephen J Bevan
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 10:20
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In article <1992Apr13.172433.1633@newshost.lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
   Haskell is also vastly different from traditional languages.  Haskell
   is a strict functional language
        ^^^^^^

Lest anyone get the wrong idea about Haskell from the use of "strict"
above, I think a better way to characterise Haskell is (from the front
cover of the report :-) :- "a non-strict, purely functional language"

bevan
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From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
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Subject: Re: Types, arrays, generality, and notation (was: Fortran90 and Arrays)
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