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From: allen@sblapis1.cs.sunysb.edu ( Allen Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: comp.lang.functional
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Date: 16 Mar 90 23:24:31 GMT
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In article <25ffdf21.179d@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) writes:
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>In article <9003131617.AA02925@decwrl.dec.com> graeme@omero.enet.dec.com (Graeme Harker) writes:
>>the Americans seem singularly uninterested in functional
>>languages. 
>
>[stuff about lack of interest in functional languages deleted.]

  Here at Stony Brook the interest in functional languages(ML,Facile,etc) *and*
relational languages(PROLOG) is very strong. In fact, our entry level computer
courses are all taught in a mixture of ML, Prolog and Pascal(??).  The undergrad
and graduate programming languages courses focus in a large part on 
functional languages.  There are even plans to update the compiler 
course soon using ML as the meta-language( no pun intended.)

  Maybe we are singularly blessed in the US, but I doubt it.

--a. leung
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