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From: amit@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Neta Amit)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: APL-like languages
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Date: 18 Jul 88 15:14:42 GMT
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Reply-To: amit@umn-cs.UUCP (Neta Amit)
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Nothing to compare, but if you're interested in powerful, expressive
languages that have either interesting control structures or interesting
data structures, I suggest that you take a close look at Scheme (for the
former) and Icon (for the latter).  In particular, notice how dynamic
and flexible arrays/lists/tables can be in Icon (interchangeably); and
how you can tailor the evaluator to your needs in Scheme (lexical/dynamic
scoping, lazy evaluation, multiple environments); Icon's co-expressions;
and its controlled backtracking;  And functions (of any order) in Scheme,
which are truly first class citizens, which can be passed, returned,
be built/modified/destroyed, be named or anonymous.
(You may find the recent book by Ralph Griswald, on the Implementation of
the Icon Programming Language, very interesting.)

Will some netlanders closely familiar with Miranda please comment? Other
particularly interesting languages?




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  Neta Amit 
  U of Minnesota CSci
  Arpanet: amit@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu