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CLU
KindProgramming language
Appeared1974
StatusDead
CreatorBarbara Liskov / MIT
FamilyALGOL
Sourcepmg.csail.mit.edu ↗

Liskov's abstract-data-type language — gave us iterators, exceptions-as-terms, and parameterized types years before C++ or Java existed.

Created by Barbara Liskov
Influenced C++

Barbara Liskov's CLU (1974) — Clusters — introduced abstract data types as language feature: objects with hidden representations, iterators, and exception handling as designed features.\n\nIt directly influenced Ada, C++, and every module system since; 'parametric polymorphism' as we know it is CLU's vocabulary.

Sources

  1. pmg.csail.mit.edu/CLU.html
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLU_(programming_language)