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Subject:    Re: [Haskell-beginners] Amanda
From:       Chaddaï Fouché <chaddai.fouche () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-12-30 12:13:16
Message-ID: CANfjZRYGEiFjzFCR2Um0_t=ze89sxax1jqWyn3dJbeQhLRiGbQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Peter Hall <peter.hall@memorphic.com> wrote:
>
> That said, Miranda/Amanda really aren't as sophisticated as Haskell,
> lacking type classes in particular.
>
> Here is a paper comparing Haskell with Miranda:
> http://www.cs.mun.ca/~donald/techreports/2000-02-cmp_haskell_miranda.ps
> It's a little bit outdated but covers the main differences pretty well.
>

Much of this report is still valuable but of course the part directly
concerning Hugs behaviour are increasingly irrelevant since GHCi is
now the interpreter of choice, having long since outstripped Hugs in
almost every point : performance, user-friendly interface, quality of
the error messages, and so on... So a large part of Haskell
"disadvantages" are now nullified, the only remaining interest of
Miranda being probably its less complicated type system, for
educational purposes (though using a simplified Prelude without
typeclasses would be at least as good).

-- 
Jedaï

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