Turing programming language
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Turing is a Pascal-like programming language developed in 1982 by Ric Holt and James Cordy, then of University of Toronto, Canada.
Turing is a descendant of Euclid that features a clean syntax and precise machine-independent semantics. It is used primarily as a teaching language at the high school and university level. Two other versions exist, Object-Oriented Turing and Turing Plus, a systems programming variant. Turing is available from Holt Software Associates in Toronto. Versions for Unix, Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh are available.
Descendants included Turing Plus and Object-Oriented Turing
A brief example of Turing is the following recursive function to calculate a factorial.
function factorial (n: int) : int
assert n >= 0
if n = 0 then
result 1
else
result n * factorial(n-1)
end if
end factorial
var n: int
put "Please input an integer :" ..
get n
put "The factorial of ", n, " is ", factorial(n)
Here is a sample Hello World program in Turing:
put "Hello World!"
External links
- Turing home page (http://www.holtsoft.com/turing/)
- Turing Wikibook (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Turing)
See also
- This article was originally based on material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, which is licensed under the GFDL.