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chancho
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First Impressions of the Fortress Language
Juxtaposition in ML is function application: f x y = f(x,y)
Although you're free to discount ML and its ilk (OCaml, Haskell) as non-mainstream.
lacker
on May 9, 2009
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This isn't quite the same juxtaposition as math, though. In math you just put single letters next to each other and it's multiplication. But in any programming language enforcing single-letter names would be crazy....
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Although you're free to discount ML and its ilk (OCaml, Haskell) as non-mainstream.