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From: philip@Kermit.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
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Subject: Re: Let's replace the name "functional"
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Date: 28 May 90 18:47:32 GMT
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In article <2585@skye.ed.ac.uk>, jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:
> 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.

Algol 68 is clearly an odd language.

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu