[Haskell-cafe] Wikipedia on first-class object

Cristian Baboi cristi at ot.onrc.ro
Fri Dec 28 02:15:11 EST 2007


On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:39:25 +0200, Jonathan Cast  
<jonathanccast at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Haskell is not a computer programming language; Haskell implementations  
> are not required to run on computers.  Haskell is a formal notation for  
> computation (completely unrelated to the Von Neuman machine sitting on  
> your desk).  It can be implemented on Von Neuman machines, because they  
> are still universal Turing machines, but it is /not/ a radical attack on  
> the problem of programming peripherals!

How do you call that "thing" that implement Haskell ?




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