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| | Computing Languages List |
 | | C(GNU-C)- many extensions: compound statements within an expression, pointers to labels, local labels, nested functions, typeof operator, compound and conditional expressions and casts allowed as values, long integers, arrays of variable length, macros with variable number of arguments, nonconstant initializers, constructor expressions, labeled elements in initializers, case ranges. |
 | | An ISWIM program is a single expression qualified by "where" clauses (auxiliary definitions including equations among variables), conditional expressions and functional definitions. |
 | | It may be possible that the "Expression" representation of a program, and the PLIANT compiling mechanism, are to languages, what many UNIX concepts (files, trees, processes) are to OS's: the most simple, yet powerful model. |
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