Why currying?922 (9/14/2007 3:23:58 AM) comp.lang.functional Hi again I know this question has probably been answered to death everywhere, but I have to be honest, I haven't been convinced by ppl's posts about currying and its rationale. I hear reasons like callbacks a... chris.khoo(38)
The right answer of -1^2 is?6627 (10/3/2007 6:13:35 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hello: Please do not get worked out over my crossposting to lang.lisp, lang.scheme, and lang.functionl. There has been a discussion on heise.de about the following: What is the correct answer of the followin... chain_lube(430)
The secret of hand compiling LISP/Scheme3446 (10/8/2007 6:35:30 AM) comp.lang.lisp I have googled a lot and not found any clear information on how to "hand compile" a rudimentary LISP interpreter. John McCarthy, has kept it as secret. He mentions it but gives no info. Many years ago I went ... gnuist0061(14)
Haskell - Transforming a String in a function3019 (10/13/2007 4:18:37 AM) comp.lang.functional In the last few days I've started to study the Haskell language, and beside the difficulties of a functional language (I come from some basis of C++ and Ruby) I'm wondering about a real worrying question: - How... ShinjiIkari82
Functional Languages and Java interoperability825 (10/16/2007 11:20:13 PM) comp.lang.functional I've been asked to assess some functional languages for use within an existing project. That project is currently written entirely in Java. I'm basically a newbie as far as functional languages go, although I'... usenet650(7)
Verbose functional languages?36584 (12/2/2007 3:04:39 PM) comp.lang.functional Hello everybody, I got a question. Is there anything like a verbose functional language that attempts to be easily readable? What I am looking for would be something that looks kind of like smalltalk, with an... rudi2468(20)
Haskell logo422 (12/20/2007 1:34:26 AM) comp.lang.functional does anyone know who designed the Haskell logo? Thanks. Xah xah@xahlee.org $B-t(B http://xahlee.org/ ... xah(463)
lazyness4935 (1/7/2008 12:57:43 PM) comp.lang.functional hello! i try to get my head around the implications of if a language is lazy or not. therefore i constructed a strange "sandwich" function in haskell: let f x y g = (x+y, g(fst (f x y g))) f 10 20 (^2) (30,... mail9346(4)