Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> Perhaps you're forgetting that Haskell is also 20 years old?
> >
> >   Hence a complete newcomer as programming languages are concerned.
>
> Not nearly as new as the likes of Java, Python, Ruby, etc. But sure, not
> as ancient as Lisp or C...

I believe Haskell is older than those.  Haskell was to be a kind of open
reimplementation of Miranda, which was developed in the early 80's.  It adopted
most of Miranda's syntax, and if some of that sounds weird, it is because C++
was still being developed back then as well...

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