Croma (programming language)

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Croma is a dialect of the Lisp programming language created by the 2005 Irish Young Scientist of the Year, Patrick Collison.

Croma
Designed by	Patrick Collison
Developer	Patrick Collison
First appeared	2005

Stable release	1.2

OS	Cross-platform
Influenced by
Lisp

This language went on to take second place at the 17th European Contest for Young Scientists in Moscow.

The underlying structure has been rewritten in C and Erlang-style multiprocessing has also been added. First class macros have been dropped from the features of Croma.

External links

Short interview with Patrick Collison

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