Re: ASCL a doomed idea?

[Brian Rogoff <bpr@bpr.best.vwh.net>]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Nick Roberts wrote:
> Does anyone have a good formula for removing large quantities of egg from
> the face?

Take one Remington 870, rack one 00 shell in, disengage safety, point at
egg stain, and pull trigger. Boom, egg and face all gone. :-)

More seriously, Haskell is such a language. Strings in Haskell are lists
of characters. One of the boneheaded mistakes of Haskell if you ask me.
That's what happens when all of the language designers come from academia.

-- Brian

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> Best,
> Nick Roberts
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> "Ian Wild" <ian.wild@eurocontrol.int> wrote in message
> news:3C172DBE.3B7DB9E9@eurocontrol.int...
> > Nick Roberts wrote:
> > >
> > > ... There are several programming languages in which a string is
> > > explicitly a list. Think about LISP.
> >
> > There may indeed be several such languages, but Lisp isn't
> > one of them  A Lisp string is an array of characters.
> >
> >   (subtypep 'string 'array)  ==> T
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