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From: gudeman@arizona.edu (David Gudeman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Polymorphism
Message-ID: <10741@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 11 May 89 07:58:28 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article  <6090@pdn.paradyne.com> alan@oz.nm.paradyne.com (Alan Lovejoy) writes:
>...  Turing machines are the ONLY possible model I know of for how a
>functional language could be implemented--other than in a biobrain...

I don't understand this comment.  Functional languages can be (and
are) implemented on dozens of different architectures with no
resemblence to Turing machines.
-- 
					David Gudeman
Department of Computer Science
The University of Arizona        gudeman@arizona.edu
Tucson, AZ 85721                 {allegra,cmcl2,ihnp4,noao}!arizona!gudeman