E.Ireland@massey.ac.nz (Evan Ireland) (09/27/90)
Hi,
I am currently teaching part of a 3rd year undergraduate course on
programming languages, with a portion on functional languages. Some
of my students, as would be expected, have asked me what functional
languages are being used for in the non-academic arena.
If you know of any non-trivial, non-academic, applications of
functional languages, I would like to hear from you. Things I would
like to know include:
Type of application (e.g. compiler)
Size of application
Language(s) used (e.g. ML, Miranda, LISP/Scheme?)
What non-functional features were used (assignment, I/O etc.)
I would rather not hear about application(s) which make `significant'
use of non-functional features, i.e. assignments or I/O used in such a
way as to destroy referential transparency, unless the applications
also make `significant' use of higher-order functions and/or lazy
evaluation.
Please reply by e-mail, and I will summarise to the net, unless a
`significant' number of people tell me they are uninterested.
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Thanks in advance,
Evan Ireland (E.Ireland@massey.ac.nz),
School of Information Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ.