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- From: jas@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (John Shepherd)
- Subject: Pure FP's Place in the History of Programming Languages
- Message-ID: <9232511.19142@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:46:22 GMT
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- Does anyone know why there is no representation from the pure (or almost
- pure) functional school (ML, Miranda, Haskell, etc.) in the History of
- Programming Languages Conference? The Conference purports to empahsise the
- period from the last HOPL Conference (1978) until now, and I would have
- thought that PFP had seen most of its development in that period.
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- Is this an optimistic sign that PFP represents future history? The New
- Wave of programming? :-)
-
- Cheers, jas
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