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From: mikulska@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Margaret Mikulska)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.lisp
Subject: functional languages
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Date: 11 Sep 88 20:28:37 GMT
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Has anybody got any _hands-on_ experience with a functional language
called MIRANDA ? It is described in the book:
Simon L. Peyton Jones, The Implementation of Functional Programming
Languages, 
and in a few articles.

There is also a British company selling compilers for this language
(running on most UNIX systems, from large ones down to AT&T 3B2).

On paper, the language looks great. However, I'd like to hear from
somebody who has or is currently _using_ the language.

Also, I'm interested in other func. lang. particularly suitable for 
scientific computing, i.e., languages whose syntax is as close as 
possible to mathematical notation (special applications: solutions
of differential equations).

PLEASE e-mail, I'm not able to catch up with all the interesting
groups.
Thanks in advance.


Margaret Mikulska

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, C-014
Institute for Nonlinear Science, R-002

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