On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 03:34:01PM -0400, Dan Anderson wrote: > I wasn't implying that you were trying to create a new langauge. I am > simply pointing out that there are a huge number of languages out there > which were experimental in nature and very innovative. Some of them -- > like java -- are still around.
Eh? Java: experimental, very innovative and still around. Well, it's certainly still around, and I suppose I could give you experimental, but probably not in the way you meant it. 1.5 / 3 ;-) > Take Haskell for instance. You can return functions from functions and > other things. Is this useful for some projects? Probably. Am I going > to switch to Haskell because of this? No. And there is no need to because you can do this in Perl too. Perl has a number of features used for functional programming. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]