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SETL Programming Language
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redsymbol
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This is where list comprehensions came from! Like we have in modern Python, Haskell and more. SETL was the first language to use comprehensions in its core syntax.
compsciphd
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isetl was what we used for my discrete math course 20 years ago or so. I remember other students complaining about having to learn it. "when are we going to use this language".
cluster_fsck
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Same and I hated it, tbh (but my experience was like 30 years ago). My prof insisted all work be done in SETL and did a terrible job of actually introducing us to the language, yet we had to submit our work as SETL code. Like, yay set theory, but I learned more implementing my homework in C and SmallTalk.
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Another good example of how languages were already progressing during the 1960's.