[Haskell-cafe] Byte Histogram

Roel van Dijk vandijk.roel at gmail.com
Sun Feb 6 10:13:23 CET 2011


On 5 February 2011 16:21, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
> I didn't think Clean supported laziness at all? I thought it was a strict
> language.

"CLEAN is a practical applicable general-purpose lazy pure functional
programming language suited for the development
of real world applications." [1]

Haskell en Clean are very much alike. You can even compile Haskell 98
code with the latest (experimental) Clean compiler and having it
interact with Clean code and vice-versa [2]. The main difference is
Clean's use of uniqueness typing.


1 - http://clean.cs.ru.nl/download/Clean20/doc/CleanLangRep.2.1.pdf
2 - http://www.cs.ru.nl/~thomas/publications/groj10-exchanging-sources-between.pdf



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