On 08-Apr-2001, Terrence Brannon <princepawn@earthlink.net> wrote:
I have decided to escape the world of Perl into something more definitional. I gave up on CAML and Erlang because they contain imperative elements and I am tired of that form of coding. So, I have narrowed it down to Haskell and Mercury.
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http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/mercury/information/comparison_with_haskell....
That page really only describes the differences in the type systems. A very important distinction between Mercury and Haskell which that page just skims over is that Haskell is lazy by default, and Mercury is not. -- Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> | "I have always known that the pursuit | of excellence is a lethal habit" WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh> | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.