From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a3bf872bb81a1f2b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-12 14:09:44 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!dfw-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!bpr.best.vwh.net!bpr Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: ASCL a doomed idea? In-Reply-To: <9v82ml$db5j1$2@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> Message-ID: References: <7RQP7.4406$Yy.272014@rwcrnsc53> <9v0crv$bo2bi$2@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <3C13D980.748CCCDA@acm.org> <9v37s0$cdmva$3@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <30wR7.37506$Yy.395982@rwcrnsc53> <9v6cn5$dcfkh$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <3C172DBE.3B7DB9E9@eurocontrol.int> <9v82ml$db5j1$2@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 22:09:42 +0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.220.65.223 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: dfw-read.news.verio.net 1008194988 192.220.65.223 (Wed, 12 Dec 2001 22:09:48 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 22:09:48 GMT Organization: Verio Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17867 Date: 2001-12-12T22:09:42+00:00 List-Id: 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 > > -- > Best, > Nick Roberts > > "Ian Wild" 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 > > > >