From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2006-12-22T04:45:03+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby for Kids? "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" writes: >> Common Lisp doesn't have continuations. >> > Are you sure? It was a struggle, but I think someone managed to get them in. Well, you can implement them with tricks (c.f. "On Lisp"), but they are not built-in and can't easily be made look as if they were. >> There was a lot of development between A+ and Q, though. Alone the >> fact that A+ doesn't use ASCII is a big turn off. I think Q is far >> more elegant than A+, but I didn't play a lot with it. >> > Well ... I can hunt down Q ... is it open source? Unfortunately not. http://kx.com/q/ >>> There are just enough useful pieces of software written in Haskell (and OCaml, >>> too, for that matter) that you need to "have it on your hard drive". If those >>> pieces of software get useful enough, they'll need to be re-written in Java, >>> C++ or C#. :) >>> >> >> Have an example of that? >> > Darcs? I'm not sure about OCaml -- I'll have to poke around. I know > something I've got in Gentoo requires OCaml. Then there's the PEPA > Workbench (ask Google). It was originally written in ML, but has been > translated to Java. Darcs has been rewritten? -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org