The Pure Programming Language

Pure is a functional programming language based on term rewriting. Its core is actually purely algebraic and purely functional, but the name can also be taken as a recursive acronym for the "Pure Universal Rewriting Engine." Pure has a modern syntax featuring curried function applications, lexical closures and equational definitions with pattern matching, and thus is somewhat similar to languages of the Haskell and ML variety. But Pure is also a very dynamic language, and is more like Lisp in this respect. The interpreter has an LLVM backend to do JIT compilation, hence programs run blazingly fast and interfacing to C modules is easy.

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Author

Albert Gräf <Dr.Graef at t-online.de>
Dept. of Computer Music
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Germany