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Name: Anonymous 2011-01-08 13:31

What's so special about array languages? When I look at them all I see is a decent Math library on top of a rather poor and antiquated language. On Wikipedia and sites of those languages people rave about how much more concise than other languages they are and how learning them expands your horizons and makes you a better programmer but except for higher order functions, which may have been special at the time APL was invented, but now are present in almost every modern language, I don't see any features that come close to what Haskell, ML, Scala and the likes offer.
Am I missing something?

Name: LISP/Arc/Scheme/CL 2011-01-08 13:42

What's so special about list languages? When I look at them all I see is a decent List library on top of a rather {i perfect} and {i advanced} language. On Wikipedia and sites of those languages people rave about how much more abstract than other languages they are and how learning them expands your horizons and makes you a better programmer but except for macros, which still are special as much as at the time LISP was invented, and are absent in almost every modern language, I don't see any features that Haskell, ML, Scala and the likes can do better.
Am I missing something?

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