From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Erlang (Was Re: Answering an Ada/COBOL Question)
Date: 1999/11/22
Date: 1999-11-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911221801170.6065-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877ljaswd8.fsf@antinea.enst.fr
On 22 Nov 1999, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> >>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
>
> Robert> The only interesting thing about Prolog is the pattern
> Robert> matching and backtracking!
>
> pattern matching has been kept in Erlang.
>
> Sam
> --
> Samuel Tardieu -- sam@ada.eu.org
Yes, interestingly, for the functional programming language community,
pattern matching was seen as the important feature in the design of
Erlang. Erlang is dynamically typed, and originally,as Samuel noted, did
not have higher order functions, which are kind of a litmus test for
being a "functional" programming language in common meaning (*). A new
version added HOFs and list comprehensions, but the dynamic type system is
still offensive to some in the academic programming language community,
who favor implicit static typing.
-- Brian
(*) One may correctly argue that the expression is as silly as "object
oriented programming language". You can program in a functional style
in Ada too, but I wouldn't list Ada as an FP. It could enable that
style a bit better with a few small extensions.
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-12 0:00 Answering an Ada/COBOL Question Richard D Riehle
1999-11-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-11-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-11-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-14 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-11-15 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-11-16 0:00 ` Erlang (Was Re: Answering an Ada/COBOL Question) Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-16 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-17 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1999-11-17 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-11-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-16 0:00 ` Answering an Ada/COBOL Question Robert Dewar
1999-11-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-16 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-18 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-18 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-15 0:00 ` Joseph P Vlietstra
1999-11-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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