Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!umix!umich!dwt From: dwt@zippy.eecs.umich.edu (David West) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: (Lisp is Crisp!)^4 Message-ID: <584@zippy.eecs.umich.edu> Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 13:40:42 EST Article-I.D.: zippy.584 Posted: Wed Dec 2 13:40:42 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 17:07:16 EST References: <1409@mind.UUCP> Sender: news@zippy.eecs.umich.edu Reply-To: dwt@zippy.eecs.umich.edu (David West) Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept. Ann Arbor Lines: 23 Xref: mnetor comp.lang.lisp:574 comp.lang.scheme:55 comp.lang.misc:925 UUCP-Path: ihnp4!umich!zippy!dwt In article <1409@mind.UUCP> apoorva@mind.UUCP (Apoorva Muralidhara) writes: > >Any fellow applicativists out there? > --Apoorva/Applicativist Revolutionary Underground > >[Death to the side effects!] Applicativity has its advantages, but it needs 1) a more humanly-comprehensible syntax than LISP; Miranda (TM) is excellent in this respect, but the (TM) will probably doom it, as apparently was the case with COMIT (TM). 2) Some syntactic means for preventing argumentsfrom getting unreadably numerous just to pass something down to where it's finally used. 3) a public domain portable optimizing implementation (though all three of these attributes together is perhaps too much to hope for.) The thing that made Pascal fly was the availability of the Zurich P-compiler initially, then Turbo. What the world needs now is GNU Miranda or (ok, I'll be more reasonable) GNU ML. (Richard is probably too busy, though...) Turbo ML? -David West dwt@zippy.eecs.umich.edu [Nested parentheses - just say no]