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Janus (reversible computing programming language)

Janus is a reversible programming language written at Caltech in 1982. The operational semantics of the language were formally specified, together with a program inverter and an invertible self-interpreter, in 2007 by Tetsuo Yokoyama and Robert Glück. A Janus inverter and interpreter is made freely available by the TOPPS research group at DIKU. Another…

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Designed by
Christopher Lutz, Howard Derby, Tetsuo Yokoyama, and Robert Glück
First appeared
1982, 2007
Paradigm
imperative (procedural), reversible

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Janus (reversible computing programming language)

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Janus (reversible computing programming language) → Christopher Lutz, Howard Derby, Tetsuo Yokoyama, and Robert Glück
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Janus (reversible computing programming language) → 1982, 2007
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