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		LessDmesg on Feb 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Miranda released as free software Swift is not similar to Haskell and Miranda. It's an imperative refcounted manually managed language with strict evaluation, while Haskell and Miranda are GCed languages with lazy evaluation and immutability. It's hard to find languages more different, really.

mark_l_watson on Feb 29, 2020 [–]

You are right of course about the non-lazy part and like Scala, it is easy enough to use mutable data, although not good style.

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