ISWIM

ISWIM (If You See What I Mean) is an abstract computer programming language (or a family of languages) devised by Peter Landin and first described in his article "The Next 700 Programming Languages", published in the Communications of the ACM in 1966.

ISWIM
ParadigmImperative, functional
Designed byPeter Landin
First appeared1966 (1966)
Influenced by
ALGOL 60, Lisp
Influenced
SASL, Miranda, ML, Haskell, Clean, Lucid

Although not implemented, it has proved very influential in the development of programming languages, especially functional programming languages such as SASL, Miranda, ML, Haskell and their successors, and dataflow programming languages like Lucid.

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