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Lucid (programming language)

Lucid is a dataflow programming language designed to experiment with non-von Neumann programming models. It was designed by Bill Wadge and Ed Ashcroft and described in the 1985 book Lucid, the Dataflow Programming Language.

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Designed by
Edward A. Ashcroft William W. Wadge
First appeared
1976
Paradigm
Dataflow
Typing discipline
Typeless

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