Squiggol

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Bird–Meertens formalism. humorous

    "The overall goal of Squiggol is to calculate programs from their specifications in the way a mathematician calculates solutions to differential equations, or uses arithmetic to solve numerical problems."

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"The overall goal of Squiggol is to calculate programs from their specifications in the way a mathematician calculates solutions to differential equations, or uses arithmetic to solve numerical problems."

Etymology

Blend of squiggly + ALGOL, from the “squiggly” symbols it uses.

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