An overview of Ciao and its design philosophy

We provide an overall description of the Ciao multiparadigm programming system emphasizing some of the novel aspects and motivations behind its design and implementation. An important aspect of Ciao is that, in addition to supporting logic programming (and, in particular, Prolog), it provides the programmer with a large number of useful features from different programming paradigms and styles, and that the use of each of these features (including those of Prolog) can be turned on and off at will for each program module. Thus, a given module may be using, e.g., higher order functions and constraints, while another module may be using imperative operations, predicates, Prolog metaprogramming builtins, and concurrency. Furthermore, the language is designed to be extensible in a simple and modular way. Another important aspect of Ciao is its programming environment, which provides a powerful preprocessor (with an associated assertion language) capable of statically finding non-trivial bu...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Manuel V. Hermenegildo, Francisco Bueno, Manuel Carro, Pedro López-García, Edison Mera, José F. Morales, German Puebla
• Keywords: Ciao, Ciao Multiparadigm Programming, CORR 2011, Education, Important Aspect