On 5 Apr 2012, at 15:14, Grigory Sarnitskiy wrote: > Hello! I've just realized that Haskell is no good for working with functions! > > .... > > Obviously, that's not all of the imaginable possibilities. One also can > rewrite programs. And write programs that rewrite programs. And write > programs that rewrite programs that rewrite the first programs and so on. But > there is no such possibility in Haskell, except for introducing a DSL. > > So now I wonder, what are the languages that are functional in the sense > above? With a reasonable syntax and semantics, thus no assembler. I guess > Lisp might be of this kind, but I'm not sure.
Probably - but the semantics is dreadful... > > > Note, that the reflectivity is important. Intel developed a reflective functional language/system called Forte that is the basic of a lot of their formal hardware verification process... http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/tom.melham/res/forte.html > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe -------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Butterfield Tel: +353-1-896-2517 Fax: +353-1-677-2204 Lero@TCD, Head of Foundations & Methods Research Group Director of Teaching and Learning - Undergraduate, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Room G.39, O'Reilly Institute, Trinity College, University of Dublin http://www.scss.tcd.ie/Andrew.Butterfield/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
