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SETL

Vangie Beal
Last Updated May 24, 2021 7:54 am
Short for Set Theory as a Language (or Set Language), SETL is a high-level programming language that’s based on the mathematical theory of sets. It was developed in the early 1970’s by mathematician Professor J. Schwartz. SETL is an interpreted language with a syntax that is resembles C and in many cases similar to Perl. In SETL every statement is terminated by a semicolon. Variable names are case-insensitive and are automatically determined by their last assignment.