Squiggol

English

Etymology

Blend of squiggly +‎ ALGOL, from the “squiggly” symbols it uses.

Proper noun

Squiggol

1. (functional programming, humorous) The Bird–Meertens formalism.
   • 1991 June, Erik Meijer, Maarten Fokkinga, Ross Paterson, “Functional programming with bananas, lenses, envelopes and barbed wire”, in Proceedings of the 5th ACM conference on Functional programming languages and computer architecture‎^[1], Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 124–144:

     The overall goal of Squiggol is to calculate programs from their specifications in the way a mathematician calculates solutions to differential equations, or uses arithmetic to solve numerical problems.