Miranda is a functional programming language, a little to pure to be any use to me, I'd prefer a hybrid language. Still it's and interesting language, see it's Wikipedia page. I also do not like the way it uses = in more than one way: 1) As to assign values. 2) To define functions. 3) as an relational operator to test equality. so you can have function definitions like mktree list = build (sort list) where build lst = Empty, if lst = [] = Fork left (lst!m) right, otherwise where left = build (take m lst) right = build (drop (m+1) lst) m = #lst div 2 which shows = being used to define functions, mktree list = build .. and build lst = , and then as a equality operator lst = [], and then to assign to left, right and m, this is ugly and ambiguous. |
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