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Clean

Paradigm	functional
Appeared in	1987
Designed by	Software Technology Research Group of Radboud University Nijmegen
Typing discipline	strong, static, dynamic
Major implementations	Clean
Influenced by	Lean, Haskell

In computer science, Clean is a general-purpose purely functional computer programming language.

1 Features
2 Examples
3 How Clean works
4 Compiling
5 Platforms
6 License
7 References
8 See also
9 External links

Features

The Language Clean is heavily influenced by Haskell, and has therefore properties sharing with Haskell: Referential transparency, List comprehension, Guards, Garbage collection, Higher order functions & Currying and Lazy evaluation.

An IDE is included into the Clean distribution. Clean has support another platforms.

Clean has alternative to monads, which are regular in the Haskell language, an Uniqueness typing system deals with unduplicatable resources such as input and output.

Examples

Hello world (Store as hello.icl):

module hello
Start = "Hello, world!"

Factorial:

 module factorial
 fac 0 = 1
 fac n = n * 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 = x * x ^ (n-1)

The type declaration states that the function is a right associative infix operator with priority 8: this states that x*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 Microsoft Windows. It is also available with limited input/output capabilities and without the "Dynamics" feature for Apple Macintosh, Solaris and Linux.