Common LispCommon Lisp (en abrégé CL) est une spécification du langage Lisp standardisée par l'ANSI. Common Lisp est un dialecte de Lisp standardisé par l'ANSI X3.226-1994. Développé pour standardiser les variantes divergentes de Lisp qui l'ont précédé, ce n'est pas une implémentation mais une spécification à laquelle les implémentations Lisp essayent de se conformer. Il est fréquemment abrégé en CL. Common Lisp est un langage de programmation à usage général, a contrario de dialectes de Lisp comme Emacs Lisp et AutoLisp, qui sont des langages d'extension embarqués dans des produits particuliers.
SubtypingIn programming language theory, subtyping (also subtype polymorphism or inclusion polymorphism) is a form of type polymorphism in which a subtype is a datatype that is related to another datatype (the supertype) by some notion of substitutability, meaning that program elements, typically subroutines or functions, written to operate on elements of the supertype can also operate on elements of the subtype. If S is a subtype of T, the subtyping relation (written as S
ML (langage)ML (contraction de Meta Language) est un langage de programmation généraliste fonctionnel. ML fut initialement développé par Robin Milner et d'autres personnes dans les années 1970 à l'université d'Édimbourg, pour le système de preuves formelles (LCF). R. Milner rencontrait des difficultés avec le système de typage de Lisp qui permettait de « prouver » des assertions fausses. ML est un langage fonctionnel impur : il est possible de programmer en impératif et, en conséquence, les fonctions peuvent être sujettes à des effets secondaires non désirés (dits « de bord »), contrairement à des langages purement fonctionnels comme Haskell.
Bounds checkingIn computer programming, bounds checking is any method of detecting whether a variable is within some bounds before it is used. It is usually used to ensure that a number fits into a given type (range checking), or that a variable being used as an array index is within the bounds of the array (index checking). A failed bounds check usually results in the generation of some sort of exception signal. As performing bounds checking during each use can be time-consuming, it is not always done.
Miranda (programming language)Miranda is a lazy, purely functional programming language designed by David Turner as a successor to his earlier programming languages SASL and KRC, using some concepts from ML and Hope. It was produced by Research Software Ltd. of England (which holds a trademark on the name Miranda) and was the first purely functional language to be commercially supported. Miranda was first released in 1985 as a fast interpreter in C for Unix-flavour operating systems, with subsequent releases in 1987 and 1989.
Système nominatif de typesUn système nominatif de types est une classe majeure de système de types en programmation informatique. C'est avec lui qu'on détermine la compatibilité et l'équivalence de types par la déclaration explicite et/ou le nommage des types. On utilise les systèmes nominatifs pour déterminer si des types sont équivalents ou pour savoir si un type est un sous-type d'un autre. Ce système est en contraste avec le système structurel, où les comparaisons sont fondées sur la structure des types en question et donc ces types ne nécessitent pas de déclarations explicites.
ModulaThe Modula programming language is a descendant of the Pascal language. It was developed in Switzerland, at ETH Zurich, in the mid-1970s by Niklaus Wirth, the same person who designed Pascal. The main innovation of Modula over Pascal is a module system, used for grouping sets of related declarations into program units; hence the name Modula. The language is defined in a report by Wirth called Modula. A language for modular multiprogramming published 1976. Modula was first implemented by Wirth on a PDP-11.
Type introspectionIn computing, type introspection is the ability of a program to examine the type or properties of an object at runtime. Some programming languages possess this capability. Introspection should not be confused with reflection, which goes a step further and is the ability for a program to manipulate the values, metadata, properties, and functions of an object at runtime. Some programming languages also possess that capability (e.g., Java, Python, Julia, and Go). Type introspection is a core feature of Ruby.
Boilerplate codeIn computer programming, boilerplate code, or simply boilerplate, are sections of code that are repeated in multiple places with little to no variation. When using languages that are considered verbose, the programmer must write a lot of boilerplate code to accomplish only minor functionality.
Mesa (programming language)Mesa is a programming language developed in the late 1970s at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in Palo Alto, California, United States. The language name was a pun based upon the programming language catchphrases of the time, because Mesa is a "high level" programming language. Mesa is an ALGOL-like language with strong support for modular programming. Every library module has at least two source files: a definitions file specifying the library's interface plus one or more program files specifying the implementation of the procedures in the interface.