[Haskell-cafe] Custom unary operator extension?

[Michael Vanier]

APL is fairly obsolete now anyway.  A more modern version of that language is J (www.jsoftware.com), 
which does not use special characters.  I've studied the language a bit, and it's quite interesting, 
but it really doesn't offer much (anything?) over Haskell except a much terser notation and simpler 
mutable array support.  I'd stick to Haskell.

Mike

Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
> Nice. Thanks for the info, but the symbolic notation is not the only 
> reason for using Haskell, it's also to force them into solving simple 
> problems without using mutable variables, so they see this alternative 
> functional programming approach BEFORE they are specialist in C++, 
> because then they will be in the blob zone ;-) Maybe APL is also a 
> functional language, but unfortunately I don't have the time to switch 
> to another language anymore. Besides, I'm addicted to Haskell now ;-)
> 
> Henning Thielemann:
>> I have read about APL that it uses a special character set in order to 
>> get a more mathematical looking notation. Maybe your students should 
>> check out this language?
> 
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