G'day all.
Quoting Paul Hudak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Actually, one of the main reasons that we chose (:) is that that's what
> Miranda used. So, at the time at least, it was not entirely clear what
> the "de facto universal inter-language standard" was.
Exactly. One point that's often not appreciated is that Haskell is not
a descendent of ML. The ML lineage is, roughly:
Lisp -> ISWIM -> ML -> SML, LML, O'Caml etc
And the Haskell lineage is:
Lisp -> ISWIM -> SASL -> KRC -> Miranda -> Haskell
ML is much more like an older cousin than an ancestor.
This point is important because Turner languages already had a list
syntax at the time that they adopted an ML-like type system.
Cheers,
Andrew Bromage
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