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ISWIM

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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Designed by
Peter Landin
First appeared
1966; 60 years ago (1966)
Paradigms
Imperative, functional
Scope
Lexical

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Design

Implementations and derivatives

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ISWIM

Nodes36
Edges35
Triples34
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.055556
Components1

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ISWIM

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related to Implementations and derivatives · 19
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
related to Design · 5
ISWIM → ALGOL's, Being, Landin, Landin's SECD, The
Designed by · 1
ISWIM → Peter Landin
First appeared · 1
ISWIM → 1966; 60 years ago (1966)
Paradigms · 1
ISWIM → Imperative, functional
Scope · 1
ISWIM → Lexical

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language programming languages functional landin sasl miranda ml haskell first 1966 lucid variables like imperative peter pal clean operator use

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
ISWIMDesigned byPeter Landin1.00infobox
ISWIMFirst appeared1966; 60 years ago (1966)1.00infobox
ISWIMParadigmsImperative, functional1.00infobox
ISWIMScopeLexical1.00infobox
SASLinstance ofespecially functional programming languages0.80text
Mirandainstance ofespecially functional programming languages0.80text
MLinstance ofespecially functional programming languages0.80text
Haskellinstance ofespecially functional programming languages0.80text
their successorsinstance ofespecially functional programming languages0.80text
and dataflow programming languages like Lucidinstance ofespecially functional programming languages0.80text
ISWIMrelated to DesignBeing0.60section
ISWIMrelated to DesignThe0.60section

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