X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=family_tree_of_functional_programming_languages.mdwn;h=0086483566cfe82c4774772748624a52c1dc60a3;hp=f13929daca8ecba8a584cc90c13a8f34d5b90476;hb=b45e3627da3cc1910ac46cd0c7523849af765e22;hpb=399f4aa37f2dbcd96af05a841056c2da33e38ca1 diff --git a/family_tree_of_functional_programming_languages.mdwn b/family_tree_of_functional_programming_languages.mdwn index f13929da..00864835 100644 --- a/family_tree_of_functional_programming_languages.mdwn +++ b/family_tree_of_functional_programming_languages.mdwn @@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ typed and those that are statically typed. The **dynamically typed** languages give types more of a background role in the program. They include the Lisp family (which in turn includes all the variants -of [[!wikipedia Scheme]], and also [[!wikipedia Common Lisp]], and [[!wikipedia -Clojure]]). They also include [[!wikipedia Erlang]] and [[!wikipedia Joy]] and -[[!wikipedia Pure]], and others. +of [[!wikipedia Scheme (programming language) desc="Scheme"]], and also [[!wikipedia Common Lisp]], and [[!wikipedia +Clojure]]). They also include [[!wikipedia Erlang (programming language) desc="Erlang"]] and [[!wikipedia Joy (programming language) desc="Joy"]] and +[[!wikipedia Pure (programming language) desc="Pure"]], and others. Although these languages are hospitable to functional programming, some of them also permit you to write *imperatival* code (that is, code with *side-effects*) @@ -99,15 +99,15 @@ the seminar. Most programming languages, functional or not, use **strict/eager evaluation**. For instance, languages of the ML family are all statically-typed functional -languages with strict/eager evaluation. These include [[!wikipedia SML]] and +languages with strict/eager evaluation. These include [[!wikipedia Standard ML desc="SML"]] and [[!wikipedia Caml]] and [[!wikipedia Nemerle]]. Other statically-typed -functional languages with strict/eager evaluation are [[!wikipedia Scala]] and +functional languages with strict/eager evaluation are [[!wikipedia Scala (programming language) desc="Scala"]] and [[!wikipedia Coq]]. Like Scheme, many of these languages permit *imperatival* as well as functional coding; but they are regarded as functional programming languages because they are so hospitable to functional programming, and give it a central place in their design. -A few languages such as [[!wikipedia Miranda]] and [[!wikipedia Haskell]] are +A few languages such as [[!wikipedia Miranda (programming language) desc="Miranda"]] and [[!wikipedia Haskell (programming language) desc="Haskell"]] are statically-typed languages that instead mostly use **lazy evaluation**. However, it'd be more strictly accurate to say Haskell is lazy *by default*. You can also make Haskell evaluate some expressions strictly/eagerly; you just have to