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iamwil on Nov 8, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: I'm not mutable, I'm partially instantiated

Simon Peyton Jones (of Haskell) is working on Verse, a functional relational programming language, that merges the ideas of both functional and logical programming into one.

It’s being done to facilitate Fortnite metaverse, as he’s doing this work at Epic.

https://youtu.be/OJv8rFap0Nw?si=OmBT9CBJIxdJE1Jv

rscho on Nov 8, 2024 [–]

Functional logic programming much before Verse https://mercurylang.org/

SigmundA on Nov 8, 2024 | [–]

Which interestingly enough is used to make PrinceXML [1] one of the only "browsers" to fully support CSS print media.

1. https://www.princexml.com

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