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CUE

ALT is heavily inspired by the CUE language. The question is:

Is CUE a logical language, a functional language or something different?

It is probably safe to say that CUE has defined a new class of programming languages, and ALT is proud to be in that same class!

Similarities and differences

  • Structs in CUE behave very similarly to the ones in ALT, although in CUE you are only allowed to have strings as keys.
  • A lot of operators and syntax are shared between CUE and ALT. For example, the hiding of keys by prefixing them with an underscore is stolen from CUE: it is so convenient!
  • Numbers are very close syntactically, except in ALT you can calculate with intervals of numbers, while in CUE that’s not possible (they have to be ‘concrete’).
  • CUE is much more mature.

If you want to learn more about this new class of programming languages, then go to the CUE website.