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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.
The analysis highlights Art, Design and Implementations and derivatives as prominent areas in the source structure around ISWIM.
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The extracted context around ISWIM shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, ISWIM → Another, Art Evan's, Both, Clean, Gedanken, Haskell, Hope, It, John, Kent Recursive Calculator, KRC, Landin's, Miranda, No, PAL, Reynolds, Robin Milner's ML, SASL, This Another extracted example is ISWIM → ALGOL's, Being, Landin, Landin's SECD, The. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 34 structured relationships around ISWIM. Examples in this analysis include ISWIM → Designed by → Peter Landin and ISWIM → First appeared → 1966; 60 years ago (1966). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISWIM | Designed by | Peter Landin | 1.00 | infobox |
| ISWIM | First appeared | 1966; 60 years ago (1966) | 1.00 | infobox |
| ISWIM | Paradigms | Imperative, functional | 1.00 | infobox |
| ISWIM | Scope | Lexical | 1.00 | infobox |
| SASL | instance of | especially functional programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| Miranda | instance of | especially functional programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| ML | instance of | especially functional programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| Haskell | instance of | especially functional programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| their successors | instance of | especially functional programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| and dataflow programming languages like Lucid | instance of | especially functional programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| ISWIM | related to Design | Being | 0.60 | section |
| ISWIM | related to Design | The | 0.60 | section |
The concept neighborhoods around ISWIM bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Language, Landin and Variables. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For ISWIM, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects ISWIM with Design. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around ISWIM to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Art, Design & Implementations and derivatives, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — ISWIM · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout