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From: jbone@ut-emx.UUCP (Jeff G. Bone)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Backus' FL
Summary: FL or FP ???
Keywords: Nomenclature
Message-ID: <5518@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 29 Aug 88 15:38:38 GMT
References: <1165@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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In article <1165@ndsuvax.UUCP>, ncmagel@ndsuvax.UUCP (ken magel) writes:
> 
>     An implementation of Backus's FL language...

Look, somebody rag me real good if I'm wrong (what do I know, I'm just a CS
undergrad), but having read Backus' Turing Award lecture in which he des-
cribes the language in question, and having perused the literature concerning
functional programming, I was under the impression that the language was
called `FP'. I do know that the UNIX implementation of the language, at least
as we have it here, IS called `FP'.

Now, are we talking about the same language?  Has Backus taken to calling it
something else, or has he created *yet another* language?

What's the scoop? 

By the way, this isn't just idle flaming.  I sent e-mail about this to the
author of the original posting, thinking it just a typo, but after having
seen TWO postings about it, I'm curious.  Functional programming is a strong
interest of mine, and if `FL' isn't `FP', then I want to know about it.

Comments?
 

-jgb (jbone@emx.utexas.edu) ---------- "Everyone's head is a cheap movie show."