[comp.lang.misc] functional languages

mikulska@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Margaret Mikulska) (09/12/88)

Has anybody got any _hands-on_ experience with a functional language
called MIRANDA ? It is described in the book:
Simon L. Peyton Jones, The Implementation of Functional Programming
Languages, 
and in a few articles.

There is also a British company selling compilers for this language
(running on most UNIX systems, from large ones down to AT&T 3B2).

On paper, the language looks great. However, I'd like to hear from
somebody who has or is currently _using_ the language.

Also, I'm interested in other func. lang. particularly suitable for 
scientific computing, i.e., languages whose syntax is as close as 
possible to mathematical notation (special applications: solutions
of differential equations).

PLEASE e-mail, I'm not able to catch up with all the interesting
groups.
Thanks in advance.


Margaret Mikulska

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, C-014
Institute for Nonlinear Science, R-002

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fpst@hubcap.UUCP (Steve Stevenson) (09/12/88)

From article <5294@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>, by mikulska@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Margaret Mikulska):
> Has anybody got any _hands-on_ experience with a functional language
> called MIRANDA ? It is described in the book:
> Simon L. Peyton Jones.

Check with the ai boards.  David Turner, its inventor, regularly
submits blurbs on Miranda.

-- 
Steve Stevenson                            fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu
(aka D. E. Stevenson),                     fpst@prism.clemson.csnet
Department of Computer Science,            comp.parallel
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabell