Lasso (programming language)
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| Paradigm |
Multi-paradigm: structured object-oriented (multi-dis), imperative: procedural, concurrent, exp-oriented, Meta: reflective |
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| Designed by | Kyle Jessup |
| Developer | LassoSoft Inc. |
| First appeared | 1995 |
| Stable release |
9.3.1 / October 23, 2015
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| Typing discipline | Dynamic with constraints (strict-hybrid), nominative, duck (hybrid) |
| Implementation language | C, Lasso |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| OS | (OS X, Windows, Linux) |
| License | Proprietary |
| Filename extensions | .lasso .LassoApp |
| Website | www |
| Major implementations | |
| Lasso 8, Lasso 9 | |
| Influenced by | |
| Dylan, Smalltalk, Scala | |
Multi-paradigm: structured object-oriented (multi-dis), imperative: procedural, concurrent, exp-oriented,
Lasso is an application server and server management interface used to develop internet applications and is a general-purpose, high-level programming language. Originally a web datasource connection tool, for Filemaker and later included in Apple Computer's FileMaker 4.0 and Claris Homepage as CDML, it has since evolved into a complex language used to develop and serve large-scale internet applications and web pages.
Lasso includes a simple template system allowing code to control generation of HTML and other content types. Lasso is object-oriented and every value is an object. It also supports procedural programming through unbound methods. The language uses traits and multiple dispatch extensively.
Lasso has a dynamic type system, where objects can be loaded and augmented at runtime, automatic memory management, a comprehensive standard library, and three compiling methodologies: dynamic (comparable to PHP-Python), just-in-time compilation (comparable to Java or .NET Framework), and pre-compiled (comparable to C). Lasso also supports Query Expressions, allowing elements within arrays and other types of sequences to be iterated, filtered, and manipulated using a natural language syntax similar to SQL. Lasso includes full Unicode character support in the standard string object, allowing it to serve and support multi-byte characters such as Japanese and Swedish, and supports transparent UTF-8 conversion when writing string data to the network or file system.
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