[Haskell-cafe] The Q Programming Language can do symbolic manipulation -- Haskell?

Casey Hawthorne caseyh at istar.ca
Tue Aug 15 23:43:14 EDT 2006


The Q Programming Language can do symbolic manipulation -- Haskell?

The Q Programming Language can do the following:

sqr X = X*X

==>sqr 5
25

==>sqr (X+1) 
(X+1)*(X+1)

Can Haskell do symbolic manipulation?

Or are term-rewriting and the lambda calculus sufficiently far enough
apart concepts?
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Regards,
Casey


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