ISWIM
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ISWIM (If You See What I Mean) is an abstract computer programming language (or a family of languages) devised by Peter Landin and first described in his article "The Next 700 Programming Languages", published in the Communications of the ACM in 1966.[1]
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Paradigm | Imperative, functional |
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Designed by | Peter Landin |
First appeared | 1966; 58 years ago (1966) |
Influenced by | |
ALGOL 60, Lisp | |
Influenced | |
SASL, Miranda, ML, Haskell, Clean, Lucid |
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Although not implemented, it has proved very influential in the development of programming languages, especially functional programming languages such as SASL, Miranda, ML, Haskell and their successors, and dataflow programming languages like Lucid.