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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: If not Ada, what else...
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:39:29 +0200
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* Robert Matthews:

> Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> If Mercury is in, then the ML family (Standard ML, Objective Caml,
>> Visual F#, Haskell) is probably not too distant, either. 8-)
>
> I thnk you are placing Mercury in the "functional" category; think of
> it rather as a strongly typed Prolog (though with some extra 
> functional bits).

I know that it's closer to Prolog, but it's so far away from Ada that
at this point, the distinction does not matter anymore.