An overview of the Ciao multiparadigm language and program development environment and its design philosophy

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5065 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 209-237

  Hermenegildo, Manuel V ^a   Bueno, Francisco ^a   Carro, Manuel ^a   López, Pedro ^a   Morales, José F ^a   Puebla, German ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSERTION LANGUAGES; DESIGN PHILOSOPHY; HEIDELBERG (CO); HIGHER-ORDER FUNCTIONS; INTERACTIVE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT (IDE); LANGUAGES (TRADITIONAL); MULTI PARADIGM PROGRAMMING; NON-TRIVIAL; PRE PROCESSORS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENTS; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS; PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS; SPRINGER (CO);

CODES (SYMBOLS); GRAPH THEORY; LINGUISTICS; OPTIMIZATION; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SPECIFICATIONS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 45849149663     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-68679-8_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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