Re: [Haskell-cafe] Unifcation and matching in Abelian groups

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Neil Mitchell wrote:

F# is new and has the offset rule. Haskell is old and has the optional offset rule:

I thought F# uses OCaml syntax. Emacs does well with OCaml syntax. Guy Steele told this story at a conference. As part of the Fortress design effort, he and other at Sun visited several sites that make use of high performance computing. They received a variety of suggestions on how to design a high productivity language for high performance computing, and uniformly were asked not to give programmers a language that uses the offset rule. John