[PRL] Of course our programming language can do this

Paul A. Steckler steck at stecksoft.com
Wed Aug 2 17:47:11 EDT 2006


> Well, syntax may not be a polite topic, but that doesn't make it
> unimportant.  Remember, we are talking about programming **languages**.

My cue to opine that writing down a curried function in Haskell

  \ x y z -> ...

is a lot more convenient to type than the Scheme equivalent

  (lambda (x)
    (lambda (y)
      (lambda (z) ... )))

-- Paul



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