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I studied Miranda in university. It is a beautiful functional language but it wasn't free as in beer. Then around that time I heard about this free language c
by msie 18y ago
I studied Miranda in university. It is a beautiful functional language but it wasn't free as in beer. Then around that time I heard about this free language called Haskell that was similar to Miranda. I stopped using Miranda after my course was over. If it was free I wonder if it would be more popular today.
- michaelneale 18y agoI also did miranda (was my first programming language). My understanding at the time was that it was only intended for research, and as it was pure, there was no way (at the time ) to do real IO - your program was essentially f(user input as string) = output as a string, and not practical enough. Since that time they worked out how to use Monads in haskell for a nicer IO experience. Interesting.