Re: foundations of relational theory?

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 02:09:06 GMT
Message-ID: <6p_nb.59292$Tr4.141173@attbi_s03>

"Mike Preece" <michael_at_preece.net> wrote in message news:1b0b566c.0310291620.35ab76e4_at_posting.google.com...

> Thanks for this. I'd like to learn more about these "generators,
> backtracking, and coroutines" - and therefore Icon in particular. It
> is interesting to me that you began this subthread by talking about
> features available in *modern* programming languages - and yet are
> able to say, without the slightest qualm it seems, "The most
> interesting is probably Icon. Despite its age...".

Just as a point of clarification, I was referring to Icon as "the most interesting" out of the set "of languages out there that target String processing specifically."

For general purpose languages, I think the most interesting are perhaps Haskell and Erlang, in part because they are *so* different from everything else.

I will admit a soft spot for Java.

Marshall Received on Wed Oct 29 2003 - 20:09:06 CST