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'''Escher''' (named for [[M. C. Escher]], "a master of endless loops") is a [[declarative programming|declarative]] [[programming language]] that supports both [[functional programming]] and [[logic programming]] models, developed by J.W. Lloyd in the mid-1990s. It was designed mostly as a research and teaching vehicle. The basic view of programming exhibited by Escher and related languages is that a program is a representation of a theory in some [[logic framework]], and the program's execution (computation) is a deduction from the theory. The logic framework for Escher is [[Alonzo Church]]'s [[simple theory of types]].

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Escher, notably, supports I/O through a [[monadic type]] representing the 'outside world', in the style of [[Haskell (programming language)|Haskell]].

Escher, notably, supports I/O through a [[monadic type]] representing the '<ref></ref>"outside world'," in the style of [[Haskell (programming language)|Haskell]].

One of the goals of Escher's designers was to support [[meta-programming]], and so the language has comprehensive support for generating and transforming programs.