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		mahmud on Dec 19, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Semicolon Wars Haskell didn't take it from Lisp, and the taking didn't happen in the '90s. There were Hope and Miranda, long before, darlings of PL research. And the language that took the research baton from Lisp was Peter Landin's ISWIM, and its descendant, the Meta Language of LCF.

fogus on Dec 20, 2010 [–]

> Hope and Miranda, long before, darlings of PL research.

And before them SASL and the Kent Recursive Calculator.

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