From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Subject: Re: Language wars (6th September)
Date: 1996/09/10
Date: 1996-09-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5140ec$g9b@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9075.imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk
In article <9075.imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk>, imc@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier) writes:
> |OK, I'll bite. What is "Orwell", beside my favorite English author?
>
> A functional language, closely related to Miranda and Gofer.
>
> For example:
>
> > factorial x = x, if x<3
> > = x*factorial(x-1), otherwise
Well, there certainly is something Orwellian about asserting that 0! = 0.
> This whole article is an Orwell program, because lines not starting with ">"
> are comments.
Until it gets quoted in another article! :-)
--
Norman H. Cohen ncohen@watson.ibm.com
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-06 0:00 Language wars (6th September) Roy Gardiner
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Solomon Taibi
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Frank Derichsweiler
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Rony.Flatscher
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Roy Gardiner
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Ian Collier
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen [this message]
1996-09-11 0:00 ` Ian Collier
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Daniel P Hudson
[not found] ` <511qn6$407i@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>
1996-09-10 0:00 ` David Whiteman
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