Squiggol
name
name ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 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."
Example
More examples"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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