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Paradigm | Multi-paradigm: object-oriented, functional, procedural |
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Designed by | Fredrik Hübinette |
Developer | Pike development team supported by the Software and Systems division of the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA) at Linköping University |
First appeared | 1994 |
Stable release | 8.0.1738
/ January 30, 2022 |
Typing discipline | Static, dynamic, manifest |
OS | Any Unix-like, Windows |
License | GPL/LGPL/MPL |
Website | pike |
Major implementations | |
Pike | |
Influenced by | |
LPC, C, C++ |
Pike is an interpreted, general-purpose, high-level, cross-platform, dynamic programming language, with a syntax similar to that of C. Unlike many other dynamic languages, Pike is both statically and dynamically typed, and requires explicit type definitions. It features a flexible type system that allows the rapid development and flexible code of dynamically typed languages, while still providing some of the benefits of a statically typed language.
Pike features garbage collection, advanced data types, and first-class anonymous functions, with support for many programming paradigms, including object-oriented, functional and imperative programming. Pike is free software, released under the GPL, LGPL and MPL licenses.