| ISWIM - If You See What I Mean. Landin 1966. ISWIM is purely functional, a sugaring of lambda-calculus, and the ancestor
of most modern applicative languages. An ISWIM program is a
single expression qualified by 'where' clauses (auxiliary
definitions including equations among variables), conditional
expressions and function definitions. ISWIM was the first
language to use lazy evaluation and introduced the offside rule for indentation. ["The Next 700 Programming Languages", P.J. Landin, CACM 9(3):157-166 (Mar 1966)]. |
About this site and copyright information - Online Dictionary Home