Hello Max, Monday, September 25, 2006, 10:41:20 PM, you wrote:
Ch>> That's a religious statement. I was looking for some strong Ch>> arguments for the nonbelievers that Haskell is a 5GL. > But what about nonbelievers in language classification by generation? i was not on the market when 1..3 GLs arrived, but i've seen 4/5 GL story and it was just marketing tool. 4gl was used to market task-specific languages embedded in some applications or used to quickly build applications, such as Clarion Database Developer. this name was used just to emphasize advantages of these laguages over general-purpose (3gl) ones in the areas that was targeted by these languages when Japan supercomputing/new programming paradigm was arrived, it was also marketed as 5 gl - not because it's superior to 4gl, but just because 4'th number was already used :) Japan project failed its goals, and logic programming don't ruled the world. but in some sense you can say that 5gl was about describing the problem instead of the way to solve it (algorithm=3gl), so FP is closer to this goal than C++ or Java -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe