A# (A sharp) is an object-oriented functional programming language distributed as a separable component of Version 2 of the Axiom computer algebra system. A# types and functions are first-class values and can be used freely in conjunction with an extensive library of data structures and other mathematical abstractions. A key design guideline for A# was suitability of compilation to portable and efficient machine code. Development of A# has now switched to the Aldor programming language.

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  • A# (A sharp) is an object-oriented functional programming language distributed as a separable component of Version 2 of the Axiom computer algebra system. A# types and functions are first-class values and can be used freely in conjunction with an extensive library of data structures and other mathematical abstractions. A key design guideline for A# was suitability of compilation to portable and efficient machine code. Development of A# has now switched to the Aldor programming language. There is both an A# optimising compiler and an A# intermediate code interpreter. The compiler can produce any of: stand-alone executable programs object libraries in native operating system formats portable bytecode libraries C source code, or Lisp source code. Ports have been made to many different architectures (16, 32, and 64 bit): RS/6000 SPARC DEC Alpha IA-32 Intel 286 Motorola 680x0 System/370 And to several operating systems: Linux AIX SunOS HP-UX NeXT Mach plus a variety of other Unix systems OS/2 DOS Microsoft Windows VMS VM/CMS The following C compilers are supported: gcc, Xlc, Sun Studio Compiler, Borland, Metaware and MIPS C.
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  • A# (A sharp) is an object-oriented functional programming language distributed as a separable component of Version 2 of the Axiom computer algebra system. A# types and functions are first-class values and can be used freely in conjunction with an extensive library of data structures and other mathematical abstractions. A key design guideline for A# was suitability of compilation to portable and efficient machine code. Development of A# has now switched to the Aldor programming language.
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  • A Sharp (Axiom)
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