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On 2015-07-29 17:41, Paul Rubin wrote:
> 
>
 2) recurring abstractions like dynamically
> growable lists, strings, dictionaries, etc. might be doable in Ada but
> are built into Haskell, Python, etc.  

See Ada.Containers.*

> Or even simpler: print a list of the first 100 primes.  This is 3 lines
> of code in Haskell, see the illustration at the top of www.haskell.org .
> 
> Here is an exercise that is easy in Haskell but surprisingly tedious in
> languages like Ada: a number is "5-smooth" or "Hamming" if it has no
> prime factors greater than 5.  So 10, 12, and 15 are 5-smooth but 11,
> 13, and 14 are not.  The first 20 Hamming numbers are:
> 
>    [1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12,15,16,18,20,24,25,27,30,32,36]
> 
> I was going to ask for the millionth such number, but you need arbitrary
> precision arithmetic for it.  So, what is the 10000th such number?  That
> one fits in 64 bits, but is not really feasible to reach by counting.
> 

They look really mathematical.
Haskell territory ?

How is Haskell doing in Ada territory, like
concurrency etc ?


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Björn