from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Gofer
<language> A {lazy} {functional language} designed by Mark
Jones <[email protected]> at the {Programming Research Group},
Oxford, UK in 1991. It is very similar to {Haskell} 1.2. It
has {lazy evaluation}, {higher order functions}, {pattern
matching}, and {type class}es, lambda, case, conditional and
let expressions, and wild card, "as" and {irrefutable
patterns}. It lacks {modules}, {arrays} and standard
{classes}.
Gofer comes with an {interpreter} (in C), a {compiler} which
compiles to {C}, documentation and examples. Unix Version
2.30 (1994-06-10) Mac_Gofer version 0.16 beta. Ported to
{Sun}, {Acorn} {Archimedes}, {IBM PC}, {Macintosh}, {Atari},
{Amiga}.
Version 2.30 added support for contexts in datatype and member
function definitions, Haskell style {arrays}, an external
function calling mechanism for gofc, an experimental
implementation of Launchbury/Peyton Jones style lazy
functional state threads, an experimental implementation of
"do" notation for {monad comprehensions}.
Latest version: {HUGS}.
["Introduction to Gofer 2.20", M.P. Jones.]
[The implementation of the Gofer functional programming
system, Mark P. Jones, Research Report YALEU/DCS/RR-1030, Yale
University, Department of Computer Science, May 1994. FTP:
nebula.cs.yale.edu/pub/yale-fp/reports].
(http://cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/).
FTP Yale (ftp://nebula.cs.yale.edu/), FTP Glasgow
(ftp://ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk/), FTP Chalmers
(ftp://ftp.cs.chalmers.se/pub/haskell/gofer/).
(1995-02-14)
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