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Extensible programming language system

The ECL programming language and system were an extensible high-level programming language and development environment developed at Harvard University in the 1970s. The name 'ECL' stood for 'Extensible Computer Language' or 'EClectic Language'. Some publications used the name 'ECL' for the system as a whole and EL/1 for the language. Wikipedia →

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A Pascal interpreter for the functional programming language ECLRalph P. Jr Steen · 1984
Practical strategiesJudith Matlock Creighton, Carolyn Ausberger Weiner · 1986

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