On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Andrew Coppin wrote:
It's a full-scale programming language (although I gather folks do use it for
scripting too), and while it may or may not contain features that are also in
Python, it is manifestly /not/ "inspired by" Python. Clearly it was inspired
my Miranda and the host of similar-yet-incompatible languages like it. (The
design goal was to replace these languages, after all.)
On a somewhat tangental note: It seems increadible to me that Haskell was
invented in 1990, and Miranda way back in 1985. At the same time, Commodore
Business Machines released the iconic Commodore 64 in 1982, and most of the
civilised people of the world spent the next 10 years or so writing computer
programs in BASIC. It's a rather sobering thought to think that way back in
those long-lost days of 8-bit microprocessors, RF-modulated graphics and
unstructured programming, there were people somewhere working on languages
such as Miranda. I mean, comparing BASIC to FP is like comparing a water
pistol to a tactical thermonuclear device. (!) Where the heck did all this
stuff happen?! Can you actually run something like Haskell with mere
kilobytes of RAM?
For me at least 1985 is the year, where the Amiga 1000 was released. At
this time, machines with a MC 68020 were refered to as "Work stations",
what for me meant something like "expensive professional computer". For
Amiga with some megabytes RAM and a CD drive we had the Geek-Gadgets-2-CD
in 1997 that contained Gofer. However at this time I was glad to program
in object oriented style and especially GUIs with OOP.
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