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From: mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Wanted: Lazy functional language for MacIntosh
Summary: Orwell is avail
Message-ID: <1068@fornax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 89 22:20:16 GMT
References: <5608@cs.utexas.edu> <2602@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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In article <2602@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>, greg@cs.hw.ac.uk (Greg Michaelson) writes:
> From article <5608@cs.utexas.edu>, by knapp@cs.utexas.edu (Edgar Knapp):
> > Is there an implementation of a lazy functional programming language
> > (e.g. Miranda, Orwell, some LISP dialect?) that runs on the MacIntosh?
> > Any pointers greatly appreciated.
> 
> There's a Macintosh implementation of Navel, a rather eccentric
> applicative order, run-time typed, pure functional language with
> lazy lists, but it doesn't have pointers :-). Lazy list arguments
> can be used to get the effect of lazy evaluation. The Macintosh
> implementation was developed at Griffiths University in Australia,
> is experimental and is not supported. More details from me:
> 
>   greg@cs.hw.ac.uk

Orwell has been ported to the Macintosh by somebody at the University
of Glasgow.  I was there recently, and asked about getting a copy.
They didn't seem to think there would be any problem, but unfortunately
the current version will not run on a Mac II, which made it not too
useful to me.

I would be very interested in any such languages for the Mac.  Anyone
out there want to form an informal mailing list on this topic?

Ken McDonald
{...mcdonald@fornax.uucp}

PS  For the information of anyone interested in functional programming,
Glasgow University is awesome!