The Dieter Programming Language

Conceived and partially implemented by Chris Pressey

Description

Dieter (as in the German masculine given name Dieter, not dieter as in "one who diets") is a little experimental programming language that conflates type qualifiers with modules to produce something reminiscent of object-orientation. It demonstrates another way of thinking about objects, or rather, classes: not so much as aggregates of data as associations of predicates.

Dieter was intended as a way to make Hungarian notation part of the type system, and thus automatically checkable. However, it also suggests possible ways of dealing with the problems of aliasing — that is, determining if two pointers cannot possibly point to the same data, for safety and optimization considerations.

Documentation

• The Dieter Programming Language

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