On Sat, 16 May 2009, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:59 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I would say 'J is not a language for serious functional programming'
> > since J lacks all features that present in modern fp such as lazy
> > evaluation, infinite list, abstract type, functional compositions
> > other than adverb/conjunction and fork/hook.
>
> And I suppose I would say that "serious functional programming"
> seems to have been rooted in misunderstanding. See notes
I don't think that I misunderstood. Today (or perhaps from 20 years
ago [1]) FP mean languages that similar to haskell or ml, definitely not
lisp.
Introduction to Funtional Programming. Richard Bird and Philip Wadler
Prentica Hall _1988_
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