Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Feb 27 10:40:08 CET 2006

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Alex Martelli wrote:

> We stole list comprehensions and genexps from Haskell

The idea predates Haskell, I think. I first saw it in
Miranda, and it may have come from something even
earlier -- SETL, maybe?

Greg

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