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- The title of this article is incorrect because of technical limitations. The correct title is A# programming language.
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A# as part of the Axiom computer algebra system
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):
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, Borland, Metaware and MIPS C.
- This article was originally based on material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, which is licensed under the GFDL.
A# as part of the .NET environment
A# is a port of the Ada programming language to the Microsoft .NET Platform. A# is freely distributed by the Department of Computer Science at the United States Air Force Academy as a service to the Ada community under the terms of the GNU general public license.
See http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfcs/bios/mcc_html/a_sharp.html.