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While Haskell has a lot of influence from ML it is also a descendant of the highly influential line of programming languages designed by David Turner starting w
by bitdizzy 6y ago
While Haskell has a lot of influence from ML it is also a descendant of the highly influential line of programming languages designed by David Turner starting with SASL. If Miranda weren't a closed source language it perhaps would be what all of us are talking about now.
Some History of Functional Programming Languages (David Turner)
https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/tfp12/tfp12.pdf https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/tfp12/tfp12.pdf
- chubot 6y agoInteresting, I didn't know about SASL. Miranda was open sourced earlier this year! I remember downloading the tarball and looking at its source code. https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/fbtmar/miranda_has_been_released_as_free_software_its/ https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/fbtmar/miranda... https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/ https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/ https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/downloads/ https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/downloads...
- zeckalpha 6y agoThis Landin paper predates SASL by about a decade: http://thecorememory.com/Next_700.pdf http://thecorememory.com/Next_700.pdf
- bitdizzy 6y agoMentioned in the PDF I linked to :) And lambda calculus came decades before still.