Thanks for the advice.
Well, if I wanted to use a language with rich mathematical symbol
support, I would use Sun's Fortress, which allows any unicode character.
But that language is scheduled to be released by 2010, if it gets
released. An interpreter is available though.
But I'll stick to Haskell ;-)
Michael Vanier wrote:
APL is fairly obsolete now anyway. A more modern version of that
language is J (www.jsoftware.com), which does not use special
characters. I've studied the language a bit, and it's quite
interesting, but it really doesn't offer much (anything?) over Haskell
except a much terser notation and simpler mutable array support. I'd
stick to Haskell.
Mike
Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
Nice. Thanks for the info, but the symbolic notation is not the only
reason for using Haskell, it's also to force them into solving simple
problems without using mutable variables, so they see this
alternative functional programming approach BEFORE they are
specialist in C++, because then they will be in the blob zone ;-)
Maybe APL is also a functional language, but unfortunately I don't
have the time to switch to another language anymore. Besides, I'm
addicted to Haskell now ;-)
Henning Thielemann:
I have read about APL that it uses a special character set in order
to get a more mathematical looking notation. Maybe your students
should check out this language?
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