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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: Call by Result
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Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@newsguy.com> wrote:
> In the Verona of functional languages, the ML family are the Montagues
> to the LISP family's Capulets. Or something like that.

:-)

And to which of these two families is Prolog more related to?
It does make lot of use of expression-matching like the MLs,
but seems to be quite different, still.  A distant cousin?