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NPL is a functional programming language with pattern matching designed by Rod Burstall and John Darlington in 1977. The language allows certain sets and logic constructs to appear on the right-hand side of definitions, e.g.setofeven(X) <= <:x: x in X & even(x) :> Wikipedia →
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- 📕An introduction to nonprocedural languagesThomas D. Truitt · 1983
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