Re: next "big" language?? (disagree)

[winikoff@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Michael David WINIKOFF)]

The Amorphous Mass <robinson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> writes:

>On 4 Jun 1996, Peter Hermann wrote:

>  Really?  Then where did I hear the complaint about every Ada programmer 
>using a different language?  I will admit that as I have not been exposed 
>to the language in depth, my statements are less accusations and more 
>questions.  I'm quite happy to be corrected.  FWIW I'm very taken by 
>Miranda, although I do wish they'd port it to something besides Unix.

Try Gofer.
Gofer is quite similiar to Miranda, is free and has been ported to
many machines (Unix, DOS, Windows, Mac, Amiga, Acorn etc.)
It's a byte code interpreter / interactive environment.
(Similar to Miranda).

From the comp.lang.functional FAQ:
Gofer
   The Gofer system provides an interpreter for a small language based closely
   on the current version of the Haskell report. In particular, Gofer supports l
azy
   evaluation, higher-order functions, polymorphic typing, pattern-matching,
   support for overloading, etc.

   The most recent version of Gofer, 2.30a, is available by ftp:
   ftp.cs.nott.ac.uk/nott-fp/languages/gofer.

   Gofer runs on a wide range of machines including PCs, Ataris, Amigas, etc.
   as well as larger Unix-based systems. A version for the Apple Macintosh has
   been produced and is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk
   in the directory pub/haskell/gofer/macgofer.

   Please note the spelling, derived from the notion that functional languages a
re
   GO(od) F(or) E(quational) R(easoning). This is not to be confused with
   `Gopher', the widely used Internet distributed information delivery system!



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