ABSET was an early
declarative programming language
In computer science, declarative programming is a programming paradigm—a style of building the structure and elements of computer programs—that expresses the logic of a computation without describing its control flow.
Many languages that a ...
from the
University of Aberdeen
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See also
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ABSYS
Absys was an early declarative programming language from the University of Aberdeen. It anticipated a number of features of Prolog such as negation as failure, aggregation operators, the
central role of backtracking and constraint solving. Abs ...
References
*"ABSET: A Programming Language Based on Sets", E.W. Elcock et al., Mach Intell 4, Edinburgh U Press, 1969, pp. 467–492
Declarative programming languages
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