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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
Subject: Re: Let's replace the name "functional"
Message-ID: <2585@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 27 May 90 16:22:43 GMT
References: <1990May15.152529.7427@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton)
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In article <1990May15.152529.7427@watdragon.waterloo.edu> gvcormack@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Gordon V. Cormack) writes:
>Here is a test for your new phrase.  Substituting it for X below should
>yield a true statement.
>
>   FP, Miranda, Scheme and ML are X, but 
>	      Ada, Fortran, and C are not X.
>
>   I'm not sure whether Lisp and Algol 68 are X, not X, or partially X.

How about "even"?  Even languages have a even number of letters in
their name.  "What about Miranda?", you say?  Well the correct way
to write Miranda is "Miranda(tm)", where (tm) is a trademark
character.  This defintion has the additional advantage of
explaining why Miranda had to be trademarked.

Lisp too is an even language.  The case for Algol 68 is less clear.