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ISWIM, aka If you See What I Mean, is a programming language created in 1966 by Peter Landin.

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ISWIM is an abstract computer programming language (or a family of programming languages) devised by Peter J. Landin and first described in his article The Next 700 Programming Languages, published in the Communications of the ACM in 1966. The acronym stands for "If you See What I Mean" (also said to have stood for "I See What You Mean", but ISWYM was mistyped as ISWIM). Read more on Wikipedia...


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Print `Hello world'

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Feature Supported Token Example
Print() Debugging ✓ Print
Semantic Indentation ✓
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