Euclid
<language> (Named after the Greek geometer, fl ca 300 BC.) A Pascal
descendant for development of verifiable system software. No goto, no side
effects, no global assignments, no functional arguments, no nested procedures,
no floats, no enumeration types. Pointers are treated as indices of special
arrays called collections. To prevent aliasing, Euclid forbids any overlap in
the list of actual parameters of a procedure. Each procedure gives an imports
list, and the compiler determines the identifiers that are implicitly imported.
Iterators.
Ottawa Euclid is a variant.
["Report on the Programming Language Euclid", B.W. Lampson et al, SIGPLAN
Notices 12(2):1-79, Feb 1977].
(1998-11-23)
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