Category:Latitude

From Rosetta Code
Language
Latitude
This programming language may be used to instruct a computer to perform a task.
Official website
Execution method: Interpreted
Garbage collected: Yes
Parameter passing methods: By reference
Type checking: Dynamic


Listed below are all of the tasks on Rosetta Code which have been solved using Latitude.

Latitude is a prototype-oriented dynamically-typed programming language which supports continuations and first-class scoping objects. Latitude is primarily designed with runtime reflection in mind, allowing the programmer to control the language itself at runtime.

Primary Features

From the official website:

  • Simple syntax borrowing from Ruby, Smalltalk, and Erlang
  • Object orientation through prototypes
  • First-class scopes
  • Automatic garbage collection
  • Full continuation support via callCC
  • Ruby-style exception handling via catch blocks
  • Support for lazy evaluation
  • Arbitrary precision arithmetic support