Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is Haskell a 5GL?

On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 16:50 +0200, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote: . . .

(For the CDC mainframes the assembly language was called Compass [Comprehensive Assembler]. It was a 7648764GL. You could program in it almost like in Lisp thanks to some very exquisite macros, and add another set of macros which performed some type checking and optimized the register allocation. People who used it got famous (as M. Veltman, Nobel prize in physics), or got mad.)

And there was something exquisitely perverse about writing Compass programs as Fortran subroutines so you could avoid writing IO in Peripheral Processor code. -- Bill Wood