Thanks for the advice. Well, if I wanted to use a language with rich mathematical symbol support, I would use Sun's Fortress, which allows any unicode character. But that language is scheduled to be released by 2010, if it gets released. An interpreter is available though. But I'll stick to Haskell ;-) Michael Vanier wrote:
APL is fairly obsolete now anyway. A more modern version of that language is J (www.jsoftware.com), which does not use special characters. I've studied the language a bit, and it's quite interesting, but it really doesn't offer much (anything?) over Haskell except a much terser notation and simpler mutable array support. I'd stick to Haskell.
Mike
Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
Nice. Thanks for the info, but the symbolic notation is not the only reason for using Haskell, it's also to force them into solving simple problems without using mutable variables, so they see this alternative functional programming approach BEFORE they are specialist in C++, because then they will be in the blob zone ;-) Maybe APL is also a functional language, but unfortunately I don't have the time to switch to another language anymore. Besides, I'm addicted to Haskell now ;-)
Henning Thielemann:
I have read about APL that it uses a special character set in order to get a more mathematical looking notation. Maybe your students should check out this language?
_______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe