Not a city, but perhaps an island [1]. Sorry, it had to be done. -deech [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Stephen Tetley <stephen.tet...@gmail.com>wrote: > ZF Expressions (aka list comprehensions) date to at least David > Turner's KRC (St. Andrews Static Language) and Rod Burstall and John > Darlington's Hope c.1980. Maybe they were present in NPL, the > predecessor of Hope before that. The Hope paper nods to SETL as an > influence. > > Without interviewing the people concerned its probably impossible to > actually find out what influenced what - even though list > comprehensions have a long history the designers of Python might have > only seen them in Haskell so Python could well have "got" them from > Haskell. > > Hope - An Experimental Applicative language > http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.18.8135 > > The language guide is truly strange - maybe it was written by work > experience students. The Icon entry made me smile, although the SML > entry where they missed a crucial suffix is good too - "The current > implementation is Moscow" - what, the city implements a programming a > language? > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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