Squiggol

English Etymology en squiggly ALGOL, from the “squiggly” symbols it uses. Proper noun en functional programming humorous The Bird–Meertens formalism. en Erik Meijer; Maarten Fokkinga; Ross Paterson Functional programming with bananas, lenses, envelopes and barbed wire Proceedings of the 5th ACM conference on Functional programming languages and computer architecture 124–144 1991 June Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/127960.128035 978-0-387-54396-3 10.5555/127960.128035 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.