[Gllug] Web Site Creation

Tethys sta296 at astradyne.co.uk
Tue Nov 8 01:35:49 UTC 2005


Richard Jones writes:

>Yes, well Miranda is a toy teaching language.  In fact being a pure[1]
>toy teaching language without modules or any means to extend it, with
>a single non-free implementation, it's barely even practical as a
>computer language at all.

Not true, or at least, that wasn't the intent. In fact, Miranda was
explicitly created as a commercial language, and was sold throughout
the late '80s to companies using it for real world programming. I
believe you can still buy it today (although why anyone would do so
remains a mystery to me).

Tet
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