CLU (programming language)
CLU is a programming language created at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by Barbara Liskov and her students starting in 1973. While it did not find extensive use, it introduced many features that are used widely now, and is seen as a step in the development of object-oriented programming (OOP).
| Paradigm | multi-paradigm: object-oriented, procedural |
|---|---|
| Designed by | Barbara Liskov and her students |
| Developer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| First appeared | 1975 |
| Stable release | |
| Typing discipline | strong |
| Website | pmg |
| Major implementations | |
| PDP-10 CLU, Native CLU, Portable CLU, clu2c | |
| Influenced by | |
| ALGOL 60, Lisp, Simula, Alphard | |
| Influenced | |
| Ada, Argus, C++, Lua, Python, Ruby, Sather, Swift | |
Key contributions include abstract data types, call-by-sharing, iterators, multiple return values (a form of parallel assignment), type-safe parameterized types, and type-safe variant types. It is also notable for its use of classes with constructors and methods, but without inheritance.
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