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From: tmb@ai.mit.edu (Thomas M. Breuel)
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Subject: Re: Virtues of ML syntax
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Date: 18 Sep 90 23:41:18 GMT
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In article <1990Sep18.174851.4175@rice.edu>, cliffc@libya.rice.edu
(Cliff Click) writes:
|> I've done some Scheme programming, darn little ML programming and
scads
|> of C/Fortran/Pascal/etc programming.  I find ML syntax to be
incredibly 
|> unreadable, while Scheme & C syntax isn't that bad.

ML syntax is a little tricky, and quite different from C or Algol
syntax. However, it is very convenient for functional programming,
in particular if you use lots of currying.