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Re: functional languages -- any recommendations?

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On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 21:43:42 +0900
Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:

> You're probably thinking of "records", which are basically just named 
> offsets into a tuple.

Hey yeah I was!

> There are proper data structures too, such as "dict" which is
> somewhat like a ruby Hash.

I have should said I meant user defined data structures.

> It can be a bit overwhelming at first having all the different
> built-in types: tuple, list, binary (when you'd just use Array in
> ruby)

binary is not so unusual, kinda like bytestrings in python, or
Haskell., Except in Haskell a bytestring is user defined rather than
built in.

> > I really like erlang though, the syntax is cool.  Commas.
> 
> It takes some grokking as to when you need a comma, when you need a 
> semicolon, and when you need a dot. Erlang has great semantics and 
> terrible syntax.

Okay, I concede the point.  I am utterly wrong.  But I still enjoy the
asthetics. It's sort of like a sentence in English.

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functional languages -- any recommendations? 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-04 20:17 -0500
  Re: functional languages -- any recommendations? Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> - 2011-04-04 22:37 -0500
  Re: functional languages -- any recommendations? Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-05 00:29 -0500
  Re: functional languages -- any recommendations? Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@medioh.com> - 2011-04-05 00:47 -0500
    Re: functional languages -- any recommendations? Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-05 03:47 -0500
  Re: functional languages -- any recommendations? Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> - 2011-04-05 03:54 -0500
  Re: functional languages -- any recommendations? Johnny Morrice <spoon@killersmurf.com> - 2011-04-05 04:13 -0500
    Re: functional languages -- any recommendations? Johnny Morrice <spoon@killersmurf.com> - 2011-04-05 05:14 -0500
    Re: functional languages -- any recommendations? Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> - 2011-04-05 07:43 -0500
      Re: functional languages -- any recommendations? Johnny Morrice <spoon@killersmurf.com> - 2011-04-05 08:09 -0500
        Re: functional languages -- any recommendations? Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> - 2011-04-05 10:36 -0500
          Re: functional languages -- any recommendations? serialhex <serialhex@gmail.com> - 2011-04-05 11:21 -0500
          Re: functional languages -- any recommendations? Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@medioh.com> - 2011-04-05 12:30 -0500
  Re: functional languages -- any recommendations? serialhex <serialhex@gmail.com> - 2011-04-06 13:04 -0500
    Re: functional languages -- any recommendations? Johnny Morrice <spoon@killersmurf.com> - 2011-04-06 14:08 -0500
      Re: functional languages -- any recommendations? 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-06 19:30 -0500

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