[Gllug] Logo as a first language

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:52:29PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Richard Jones stated:
> > Whoa there ... Some of us are lucky enough to write ML programs for a
> > *living*.  I'd rather pull my fingernails out than write something in
> > Java again.
> 
> You are Chris `brainiac' Reade and I claim my dozen monads, SML-based
> GUI, and Special Spicy Hot Haskell-flavoured Curry.
> 
> (classic quote from Chris: `I/O isn't important in real programs. Only
> computation matters.')

Luckily (OCa-)ML is a practical functional language, and actually lets
you do all the useful stuff like IO and mutable variables without
complaining ...

Rich.

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