Re: Page 76 of OCaml by John Whitington ???

Thanks Hendrik.  I'll have to find that paper by Peter Landin.  The
author's name is strongly familiar, but right now I can't quite place it.
My AI professor said that LISP and other functional programming languages
are great for AI, but I didn't quite get his explanation.  ( And to be
fair, his explanation was pretty short and quick. )  Something about how AI
requires the manipulation of symbolic values ( as in computer algebra ) and
for that sort of thing functional programming is better suited than other
programming paradigms.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Hendrik Boom [email protected]
[ocaml_beginners] <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:49:44AM -0500, Douglas Lewit [email protected]
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> > P.S. I almost forgot. Is LISP considered the great granddaddy of all
> > functional programming languages? Is it correct to say that OCaml is
> > descended from LISP? Thanks for the feedback.
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> I'd say so, yes.
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> Since you are asking about history, perhaps you'd like some:
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> One of the important papers, while not explicitly about functional
> programming, that liberated functional programming from LISP was
> "The Next 700 Programming Languages", by Peter Landin.
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> -- hendrik
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