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Indeed, these languages are descendants of ISWIM by Peter Landin. ISWIM also inspired Lucid, so I guess PyFL would be a nephew of SASL in that case.
by ModernMech 5y ago
Indeed, these languages are descendants of ISWIM by Peter Landin.
ISWIM also inspired Lucid, so I guess PyFL would be a nephew of SASL in that case.
- tgv 5y agoISWIM isn't lazy, I think, nor fully functional.
- ModernMech 5y agoRight, but it’s still the root of the functional branch of the PL family tree. ISWIM to ML is mostly a matter of removing the few imperative features from ISWIM. Once you do that, lazy execution comes naturally.