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- From: kh@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Kevin Hammond)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
- Subject: Re: FPL on Macintosh
- Message-ID: <C17n7s.Cs2@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 15:33:27 GMT
- References: <1993Jan15.170624.1277@qucis.queensu.ca> <1993Jan20.144949.6651@sstl.uucp> <1993Jan21.134744.4873@lth.se>
- Organization: Computing Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland
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- In article <1993Jan21.134744.4873@lth.se> d92mbe@efd.lth.se (Martin Bergendahl) writes:
- >>there is concurrent Clean for the Mac available by ftp from University of Nijmegen which also offers the scope for stand-alone applications.
- >
- >How large is it? Can you do good applications with it? What is the
- >difference between concurrent Clean and Standard ML?
-
- They're pretty different. The Clean people will tell you how.
-
- > Is Clean, Gofer or maybe Dylan the future for FPL on mac?
- > Answers, comments please!
-
- As far as I'm aware, Dylan isn't a pure functional language (or
- released?), so that leaves Clean or MacGofer, at the moment.
- I see these as complementary rather than competing systems.
-
- MacGofer is an interpreter, and so is good for prototyping, or teaching.
- It runs in 1M. The Gofer language is similar to Haskell.
-
- Clean is a compiler, which produces fast standalone applications, and
- so is good for development. There is a built-in converter from a more
- conventional syntax to Clean. Clean memory requirements tend to be
- higher than MacGofer (but still acceptable on a reasonably well-equipped
- Mac).
-
- Try both, see which you like best: they're both free.
-
- Kevin
-
- [Incidentally, I'm planning to release a new MacGofer in the next few days,
- so you might like to wait before grabbing it from Glasgow...]
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- Dept. of Computing Science, Glasgow University. E-mail: kh@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk
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