[Haskell-beginners] Amanda

[Christiaan Kras]

As far as I know Amanda is closed source as well.

 From the Miranda Wikipedia page I found this link to Amanda (where you 
can download it) http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/teaching/3C11/amanda.html

Thanks for the link. Will definitely read it.

Op 30-12-2011 1:08, Peter Hall schreef:
>  From what gather, Amanda is a clone of Miranda - presumably created
> because Miranda is a closed-source product. Haskell draws heavily from
> Miranda, and some smaller programs can look almost indistinguishable
> in the two languages.
>
> 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 It's a little bit outdated but covers the main differences pretty well.
>
> Peter
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Christiaan Kras<c.kras at pcc-online.net>  wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> First time I'm posting here. I've been interested in Haskell for about a
>> year now, but sadly haven't done too much with it yet.
>>
>> I decided to get my bachelors degree in Computer Science/Engineering (it's a
>> bit of a mixed course at my university) after having worked for over 4.5
>> years. One of the classes I've got to follow is discrete math.
>>
>> A first glimpse on the study material made me think "Cool! They're using
>> Haskell!". This is however not the case. Instead, we're using Amanda.
>>
>> Amanda was written by Dick Bruin, who as far as I know used to teach at my
>> university, but has now moved on to another university. I was told Amanda
>> was being used at my university, NHL Leeuwarden (Netherlands) and the
>> University of Twente (Netherlands). (strictly my university isn't a
>> university, but high school means something different in English than it
>> does in Dutch :-))
>>
>> The reason I'm posting here is because Amanda seems extremely heavily
>> influenced by Haskell. I think it was written in either Delphi or Pascal,
>> but I've got to verify that with one of the teachers.
>>
>> It's quite old as well, as it was developed between 1990 and 2000.
>>
>> A lot of stuff written in Amanda can easily be converted to Haskell with a
>> few small changes. Which makes me wonder why they aren't using Haskell now.
>> List comprehensions use the same syntax, but use a semicolon instead of a
>> comma for separating generators and terms. Operators such as +,/,* etc. are
>> functions, just like they are in Haskell. For what I can tell Amanda is more
>> or less a stripped down version of Haskell.
>>
>> The thing I was wondering though, is if anyone on this list has ever heard
>> of Amanda before. If so, where did you got in contact with it?
>>
>> --
>> Christiaan Kras
>> http://blog.htbaa.com
>>
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