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

[Robert Dockins]

On Aug 15, 2006, at 11:43 PM, Casey Hawthorne wrote:

> 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?


Well, there's always the sledgehammer (http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ 
docs/latest/html/users_guide/template-haskell.html)


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

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