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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.
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| 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 |
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