Re: what are these langs?

From: L.J. Buitinck (L.J.Buitinck.spam_at_spam.student.rug.nl)
Date: 11/13/03 

Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:41:44 +0100

Stefan Ljungstrand wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Tristan Miller wrote:
>
> Err, where I'm from, Haskell is a functional programming language.
>
> (Hmm, the logic programming language Mercury (intended as, sortof,
> statically typed successor/improvement for Prolog) also has functions, so
> I would count it as functional too. And they say that Lisp is multi-
> paradigm.)

Haskell is a functional programming language.

Prolog is an impure logic programming language (a procedural language
with logic programming features).

Lisp is a procedural programming language dressing up as a functional
one. not very successfully, IMHO, although Scheme does it better than
Common Lisp.

Mercury is a pure functional logic programming language.
I'm not sure much is happening around Mercury anymore... 

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