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  paradigm Functional
  designer Software Technology Research Group of Radboud University Nijmegen
  latest Release Version 22
  typing Strong , Static , Dynamic
  implementations Clean
  influenced By Lean , Haskell


In Computer Science , Clean is a General-purpose Purely Functional Computer Programming Language .


FEATURES



EXAMPLES

Hello World (Store as hello.icl):

module hello

Start = "Hello, world!"

Factorial :
module factorial

fac 0 = 1
  • fac (n-1)


// find the factorial of 10
Start = fac 10

Fibonacci Sequence :
module fibonacci

fib 0 = 0
fib 1 = 1
fib n = fib (n - 2) + fib (n - 1)

Start = fib 7

Infix operator:
(^) infixr 8 :: Int Int -> Int
(^) x 0 = 1
  • x ^ (n-1)


  • x^(n-1) is equivalent to x---(x^(n-1)) as opposed to (x---x)^(n-1); this operator is pre-defined in the Clean standard environment.



HOW CLEAN WORKS

Computation is based on Graph Rewriting and Reduction . Constants such as numbers are graphs and functions are graph rewriting formulas. This, combined with compilation to native code, makes Clean programs relatively fast, even with high abstraction.


COMPILING

# Source files (.icl) and project files (.dcl) are converted into Clean's platform independent bytecode (.abc), implemented in C and Clean.
# Bytecode is converted to object code (.obj) using C.
# object code is linked with other files in the module and the runtime system and converted into a normal executable in Clean.
Earlier Clean system versions were written completely in C, thus avoiding bootstrapping issues.


PLATFORMS

Clean is available for
  • Windows

  • But with limited input-output capabilities and without the "Dynamics" feature prior to version 2.2 for the following platforms:



LICENSE


Clean is , and also under a proprietary license for €75.


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