Re: Scripting with Visual Basic Clone

[James Montgomerie]

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