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From: kubiak@bach.csg.uiuc.edu (Ken Kubiak)
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Subject: Re: first class functions
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Date: 28 Apr 89 13:02:27 GMT
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I've been looking at a language called Hope from Imperial College, which
is a compiled, _strongly_typed_ true  functional language with true
first class functions.  The excellent book _Functional_Programming_
by Field and Harrison of IC, introduces the language and gives an
in-depth study of how to compile it and anything like it.  An 
implementation for the Suns has been developed by IC, which is supposed
to be very fast.  I can send more details on the Sun version by e-mail.

Ken Kubiak
Computer Systems Group
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
kubiak@csg.uiuc.edu
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