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- From: dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk (Denis Howe)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
- Subject: Re: Definitions
- Message-ID: <DBH.92Aug20175459@wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 16:54:59 GMT
- References: <9910@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Organization: Computing Department, Imperial College, London, UK
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- In-reply-to: michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au's message of 20 Aug 92 14:41:32 GMT
-
- In article <9910@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au (Michael
- Norris) wrote:
-
- >Where can I find good definitions of the words relating to
- >functional programming?
-
- I don't know where you can find good definitions (apart from the usual
- books) but you can find lots of bad ones :-) in wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk
- (146.169.22.42) /pub/glossary.
-
- It's probably a bit out of date in places, lacks references to sources
- and was mostly written by someone who knew little about the subjects
- (me).
-
- Its coverage is wide but shallow - programming languages (particularly
- declarative), architectures, a little theory. It is quite well
- cross-referenced.
-
- I would of course be delighted to receive corrections and additions.
- Mail me if you'd like me to mail it to you.
- --
- Denis Howe <dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk>
- So Biggs, you're the idiot who bought all these IBM PCs. You're fired!
-