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Picat is a general-purpose programming language that includes features from multiple programming paradigms . By combining imperative programming’s control flow features with more advanced features from logic programming, functional programming, and scripting, Picat provides users a wide array of tools for efficiently creating programs to solve problems. A comparison with other programming languages shows how Picat programs can be more compact, more intuitive, and easier to read.
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Picat is freely available at http://picat-lang.org.
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In general, all functions can be called by using dot notation.
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A list is complete if it is empty, or if its tail is complete. For example, [a,b,c] and [X,Y,Z] are complete, but [a,b|T] is not complete if T is a variable.
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Zhou, NF., Kjellerstrand, H., Fruhman, J. (2015). An Overview of Picat. In: Constraint Solving and Planning with Picat. SpringerBriefs in Intelligent Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25883-6_1
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