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|paradigm = [[Pattern-matching]] and [[Term-rewriting]]

|designer = Charles Halpern-Hamu <br /> [[James Cordy]]

|developer = [[James Cordy]] <br /> Charles Halpern-Hamu <br /> Ian Carmichael <br /> Eric Promislow

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'''TXL''' is a special-purpose [[programming language]] originally designed by [[Charles Halpern-Hamu]] and [[James Cordy]] at the [[University of Toronto]] in 1985. The acronym "TXL" originally stood for "Turing eXtender Language" after the language's original purpose, the specification and [[rapid prototyping]] of variants and extensions of the [[Turing (programming language)|Turing]] programming language, but no longer has any meaningful interpretation.

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==Examples==

===BubbleSort<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://star.itc.it/ricca/swat/SORT/Sort.Txl] |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-03-19 |archive-date=2005-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050521085457/http://star.itc.it/ricca/swat/SORT/Sort.Txl |url-status=dead }}</ref>===

%Syntax specification

define program

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end rule

===Factorial<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://star.itc.it/ricca/swatII/Esercizi/factorial.txl] |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-03-19 |archive-date=2005-08-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050826015927/http://star.itc.it/ricca/swatII/Esercizi/factorial.txl |url-status=dead }}</ref>===

%Syntax specification

define program