Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional From: wand@dec5120z.ccs.northeastern.edu (Mitchell Wand) Subject: Re: a note on the Haskerl extension to Haskell In-Reply-To: sailor@skorpio.usask.ca's message of 5 Apr 1993 21: 19:26 GMT Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 13:47:47 GMT In article <1pq7ou$ks9@access.usask.ca> sailor@skorpio.usask.ca (Ken Sailor) writes: # I haven't heard the term FWIM before, but am interested # in FWIM languages. I assume it is a play on ISWIM (I Say What I Mean, Landin), # and am interested to know the origin of FWIM and what languages it applies to. # Any pointers? I assume it is a play on "DWIM" (Do What I Mean), which was a feature of InterLisp in the 70's. It was an idea died because in practice it was undebuggable: you had to figure out what the system THOUGHT you meant. My impression is that FWIM suffers from the same disease. Anybody want to write a semantics for Perl:-? BTW, some folks here were of the opinion that the Haskerl posting was an April Fool's joke (it WAS posted on 4-1-93). --Mitch(Back to Haskerl index.)