Subject: Re: Scripting with Visual Basic Clone
From: James Montgomerie (jamie@montgomerie.net)
Date: Thu Jun 29 2000 - 10:10:19 CDT
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:24:30 sam th wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
>
> Yes, they are clearly all very different from a functional language. And
> even more different from LISP dialects. But on each of your points, the
> similariteis you mention are not that significant.
>
> Flow-control - you could easily (well, maybe not easily) use recursion for
> all your c loops.
>
> Basic math - this is just a lisp thing. Haskell, for example, uses infix
> for math.
>
> statement/expression, rval, lval - all of these are present in scheme also
> for example, the following is illegal
>
> (define (+ 2 3) (+ 4 5))
While we're talking about functional languages, how about ML?
Or have I been studying in Edinburgh for too long...? :-)
Jamie
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b25 : Fri Jun 30 2000 - 15:50:59 CDT