Pike (programming language)

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Pike

Paradigm	Multi-paradigm: object-oriented, functional, procedural
Designed by	Fredrik Hübinette
Developer	Pike development team supported by the Software and Systems division of the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA) at Linköping University
First appeared	1994; 30 years ago (1994)
Stable release	8.0.1738 / January 30, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-01-30)
Typing discipline	Static, dynamic, manifest
OS	Any Unix-like, Windows
License	GPL/LGPL/MPL
Website	pike.lysator.liu.se
Major implementations
Pike
Influenced by
LPC, C, C++

Pike is an interpreted, general-purpose, high-level, cross-platform, dynamic programming language, with a syntax similar to that of C. Unlike many other dynamic languages, Pike is both statically and dynamically typed, and requires explicit type definitions. It features a flexible type system that allows the rapid development and flexible code of dynamically typed languages, while still providing some of the benefits of a statically typed language.

Pike features garbage collection, advanced data types, and first-class anonymous functions, with support for many programming paradigms, including object-oriented, functional and imperative programming. Pike is free software, released under the GPL, LGPL and MPL licenses.