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- From: leonp@cs.kun.nl (Leon Pillich)
- Subject: Re: FPL on Macintosh
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- References: <1993Jan15.170624.1277@qucis.queensu.ca> <1993Jan20.144949.6651@sstl.uucp> <1993Jan21.134744.4873@lth.se> <C17n7s.Cs2@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:34:59 GMT
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- In <C17n7s.Cs2@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> kh@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Kevin Hammond) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- I'm not an official spokesman but I know something about
- Concurrent Clean.
- First of all it is based on graph rewriting (it actually is a
- graph rewriting language).
- You can develop full flavoured Mac applications with it
- (here someone wrote a multiple window text editor with it).
- The code that is produced by the compiler is rather efficient.
- (The editor is about as fast as any editor on Mac can be!).
- The compiler comes with a integrated development environment
- (no debugger however). There is also a simulator available to let you trace
- concurrent clean programs.
-
- There is a library available (actually is being completed now)
- that supports a very high level gui programming environment.
-
- All this is (or will be) available for anonymous ftp
- at ftp.cs.kun.nl in directory pub/Clean (I think).
- There is also a version available for Sun3/Sun4 (of the compiler,
- the above mentioned gui librarie will also be available for sun4
- within short time).
- I think that one can use the compiler for any non-commercial activities
- (but more about this can be found in the docs I think).
-
- >> 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.
-
- ... Stuff about MacGofer deleted ...
-
- Hope this helps,
-
-
- Leon Pillich
- University of Nijmegen, Holland
- email: leonp@cs.kun.nl
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