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- From: ard@cs.bham.ac.uk (Antoni Diller)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
- Subject: Re: Is Miranda the one?
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- Date: 15 Dec 92 13:59:39 GMT
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- In article <dt4.723949863@persimmon> dt4@persimmon.ucsb.edu (David E. Goggin) writes:
- >Hi!
- >
- >We just finished a class in prograamming languages here, and
- >We used Miranda (not LISP) as the preeminant example of
- >functional languages. I am wondering whether everyone out there
- >believers that Miranda is the BEST functional language?
- >
- >I have lloked thorugh several books on Comparative
- >programming lanuages and none mention Miranda, but o
- >do mention LISP, LOGO, Hope, and a few other obscure one.
- >
- >*dt*
- >.
-
- I don't think that it makes sense to say of any programming language
- that it is the best; it rather depends on what you want to do with it.
- For some things Miranda is very good and at others it is lousy; similarly
- with Lisp. Eg, if you want to do meta-programming then obviously you
- won't choose either Miranda or ML; you'll probably go for Lisp.
- So, you first need to decide what you want to do with your functional
- language and then you are in a better position to decide which one
- is best for that purpose.
-
-
- Antoni Diller
-