An
open source dynamically compiled language with
a trivial
syntax in which advanced features can be
written in the language itself, as modules. Modules in Pliant consist of normal
library routines or meta-programming functions.
Pliant can run as an application under any
Linux
distribution, as an application under the Windows operating system, or as a
standalone operating system named FullPliant.
Pliant provides programmers with a complete development environment including
the dynamic compiler, debugging an profiling features, a database engine, a Web
friendly user interface graphical toolkit, client and server side
implementations of several standard services, and more. Pliant is released under
the
GNU public license, version 2.
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