Polymorphic Programming Language
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Short description: Interactive, extensible programming language type
The Polymorphic Programming Language (PPL) was developed in 1969 at Harvard University by Thomas A. Standish. It is an interactive, extensible language with a base language similar to the language APL.[1]
The assignment operator <-
(or ←
) has influenced the language S.[2]
References
- ↑ Standish, Thomas A. (August 1969). Christensen; Shaw. eds. "Some features of PPL – a Polymorphic Programming Language" (in en). ACM SIGPLAN Notices (ACM Digital Library: Association for Computing Machinery) 4 (8): 20-26. doi:10.1145/1115858.1115864. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1115858.1115864&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE. Retrieved 2018-06-23.
- ↑ Chambers, John M. (November 1994). "Evolution of the S Language" (PostScript). http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/departments/sia/doc/96.7.ps.
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphic Programming Language.
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