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== History ==

Atom was created in 2007 originally as a [[hardware description language]]. Inspired by [[Bluespec|Bluespec's]] hardware synthesis from circuit descriptions based on conditional [[Term_Rewriting_System| term rewriting]], the earliest version of Atom used [[Haskell_(programming_language)|Haskell's]] [[Monad_(functional_programming)|monadic]] style to capture [[Term_Rewriting_System|TRS]] descriptions and generate simple [[Verilog]] [[netlist|netlists]].

== Language features ==