Not a city, but perhaps an island [1]. Sorry, it had to be done.<br>-deech<br><br>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Stephen Tetley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen.tetley@gmail.com">stephen.tetley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">ZF Expressions (aka list comprehensions) date to at least David<br>
Turner's KRC (St. Andrews Static Language) and Rod Burstall and John<br>
Darlington's Hope c.1980. Maybe they were present in NPL, the<br>
predecessor of Hope before that. The Hope paper nods to SETL as an<br>
influence.<br>
<br>
Without interviewing the people concerned its probably impossible to<br>
actually find out what influenced what - even though list<br>
comprehensions have a long history the designers of Python might have<br>
only seen them in Haskell so Python could well have "got" them from<br>
Haskell.<br>
<br>
Hope - An Experimental Applicative language<br>
<a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.18.8135" target="_blank">http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.18.8135</a><br>
<br>
The language guide is truly strange - maybe it was written by work<br>
experience students. The Icon entry made me smile, although the SML<br>
entry where they missed a crucial suffix is good too - "The current<br>
implementation is Moscow" - what, the city implements a programming a<br>
language?<br>
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