Developer(s) | Portland State University |
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Stable release |
1.5 / April 29, 2011
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Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Interpreter |
License | New BSD License |
Website | Omega download page |
The Omega interpreter is a strict pure functional programming interpreter similar to the Hugs Haskell interpreter. The syntax closely resembles that of Haskell but with important differences:
Other differences are documented in the Omega user guide.
Omega was developed by Prof. Tim Sheard of Portland State University's Computer Science Department as a language with an infinite hierarchy of computational levels (value, type, kind, sort, etc.). The underlying concept is that data, and functions manipulating data, can be introduced at any level.