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Haskell where clause: is it more than just a matter of taste?
The traditional (Scheme, Pascal) way to structure code is this:
declare outer function
declare inner function
body of inner function
body of outer function
The where clause in Haskell moves ...
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Differences between deep and shallow bindings for static scoping
I am self-learning Michael L. Scott's Programming Language Pragmatics. The following quote explains how deep binding and shallow binding are different in the presence of static scoping:
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Is it possible to use array values to define variable? [closed]
What i mean is something like:
I have 2 array var and type, you can input the name of the variable on the var array and type of variable on the type array(type depend on language used), then i want to ...
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Whatever happened to Pascal? [duplicate]
In reading this blog post about Photoshop 1.0 I was surprised to learn that it was written in Pascal (Object Pascal to be exact). But you never hear about Pascal anymore. Why is that?
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Why has C prevailed over Pascal? [closed]
My understanding is that in the 1980s, and perhaps in the 1990s too, Pascal and C were pretty much head-to-head as production languages.
Is the ultimate demise of Pascal only due to Borland's neglect ...
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Is Oberon really "a better Pascal"? [closed]
Reading Niklaus Wirth, one can notice that despite some popularity of Pascal, he is not glad that Oberon (as a "polished" successor of Pascal and Modula) didn't get much popularity. I never did ...
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