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Re:Rhombus Language by bmitc on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @01:26AM (#43396051)
What is the relation to Haskell?

The language is basically Racket, which is a Scheme at its core. There's very little in common with a language like Haskell.

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Re:Rhombus Language by galaxyLogic on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @02:12AM (#43396232)
So it's not PURE!
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Re:Rhombus Language by otabdeveloper4 on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @03:10AM (#43396505)
Yeah, it doesn't have the one thing that makes Haskell Haskell.
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Re:Rhombus Language by tromp on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @04:15AM (#43396818)
It's also strict rather than lazy by default. So it doesn't have the two things that make Haskell Haskell.
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Re:Rhombus Language by pjmlp on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @06:10AM (#43397589)
Actually it started with Miranda.
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Re:Rhombus Language by tromp on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @03:04PM (#43403520)
Which in turn started with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SASL_(programming_language)
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Re:Rhombus Language by coolio1232 on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @04:27AM (#43396886)
Syntax-wise it looks a lot like Haskell to me, especially the pattern-matching, the variable declarations (with `::`), as well as the indent-based blocks.
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Re:Rhombus Language by cies on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @05:10AM (#43397133)
It's usually called ML-syntax. SML, OCaml, Elm, PureScript, and many more have used this.
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Re:Rhombus Language by cies on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @05:11AM (#43397146)
> What is the relation to Haskell?

I could only think of is they are both being a "typed lambda calculus" language with an ML-syntax.

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