- Copyright (C) 1993-2015 Timothy A. Budd
The Leda programming is a multi-paradigm language which spans the boundaries of the well known programming language models: imperative, object-oriented, functional and logic.
Leda was developed in the early 1990’s by Timothy A. Budd an associate professor at Oregon State University Corvallis. The attempt to define a language that would support multiple programming paradigms was inspired by Budd’s excitement about OOP and other innovations occuring in the development of programming languages at the time. The initial attempts at creating the new language started with the development of compilers by students under Budd’s direction as well as other researchers at the University of Nice, in France. In 1993 Budd took a sabbatical leave from his University post at Oregon State to teach in Europe and complete research on the new programming language. During this year, he penned the definitive text on the Leda: “Multiparadigm Programming in Leda”.
The Leda syntax is influenced by the ALGOL-60 programming language and similar to many of the other languages that are direct decedents of ALGOL-60 including Pascal, SIMULA, Modula, Oberon and Ada.
- Reference Manual
- Leda_(programming_language)
- Multiparadigm Programming in Leda (out of print)
- A revised Leda language definition
- Study of Leda Programming Language
- Multiparadigm data structures in Leda
- LEDA : a blending of imperative and relational programming
- CLEDA - LEDA with constraint logic programming
- Multiparadigm Programming in Leda (slides)
The default build setup is to compile with gcc but lc has also been
tested with clang and any other standard C compiler should be suitable.
The particular compiler can be configured by editing Src/Makefile.
- To build the Leda interpreter and manual:
make - To run all the tests:
make test