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- From: Mirek Benes <benes@dcse.fee.vutbr.cs>
- Subject: Practicality of functional and logic languages?
- Reply-To: Mirek Benes <benes@dcse.fee.vutbr.cs>
- Organization: Compilers Central
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 06:33:16 GMT
- Approved: compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
- Message-ID: <93-01-059@comp.compilers>
- Keywords: functional, design
- Sender: compilers-sender@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
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- I would like to know some opinions concerning functional and logic
- programming languages (Haskell, Miranda, ML / Prolog) and their practical
- usability for programming:
-
- * Are they (1) toys for playful programmers, (2) something usable only
- at universities for never-ending research, or (3) important means for
- development of usable software products?
- * Are there any (comercially?) successful applications written in functional
- or logic languages?
- * How effective these applications are comparing with applications
- written in classic procedural languages like Pascal?
-
- I want to start courses of these programming styles at the university,
- so any opinions on the subject will clear up my situation.
-
- Miroslav Benes
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