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Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks
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Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks

by Dmitry Zinoviev
October 2024
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 54m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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“Hello, Sets!”

Starset is one of the few set-oriented languages. Actually, to the best of our knowledge, it’s one of two set-oriented programming languages, the other being SETL (Programming with Sets: An Introduction to SETL [SDDS86]). While many languages, such as Prolog, Oz, Coq, Haskell, Erlang, Datalog, and Python, support sets, only Starset and SETL consider them their primary data types.

Set-oriented languages offer some advantages over other classes of languages. Set operations are naturally parallelizable, which makes them well-suited for modern multicore and distributed computing environments. They are better aligned with mathematical foundations, which can provide a solid theoretical basis for reasoning about data and operation. ...

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