Editing SETL (section)

{{Short description|Programming language}}
{{Redirect|Setl|the indigenous location in Canada|Bridge River Rapids}}
{{Infobox programming language
| logo                   = 
| paradigm               = [[Multi-paradigm programming language|multi-paradigm]]: [[Imperative programming|imperative]], [[Procedural programming|procedural]], [[Structured programming|structured]], [[Object-oriented programming|object-oriented]]
| released               = {{Start date and age|1969}}
| designer               = (Jack) [[Jacob T. Schwartz]]
| developer              = [[Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences]]
| latest release version = 1.1
| latest release date    = {{Start date and age|2005|01|07}}
| typing                 = [[Type system#DYNAMIC|Dynamic]]
| implementations        = 
| dialects               = 
| website                = {{URL|setl.org}}
| influenced_by          = [[ALGOL 60]]
| influenced             = [[SETL2]], [[ISETL]], [[SETLX]], [[Starset (programming language)|Starset]], [[ABC (programming language)|ABC]]
}}

'''SETL''' (SET Language) is a [[very high-level programming language]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Schwartz |first=J. T. |last2=Dewar |first2=R. B. K. |last3=Schonberg |first3=E. |last4=Dubinsky |first4=E. |date=1986 |title=Programming with Sets |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9575-1 |journal=SpringerLink |language=en |pages=v-vii, 2, 48, 53, 57-58, 63, 113ff |doi=10.1007/978-1-4613-9575-1|url-access=subscription }}</ref> based on the mathematical [[Set theory|theory of sets]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=GNU SETL Om |url=https://setl.org/setl/doc/setl.html |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=setl.org}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Markoff |first=John |date=2009-03-04 |title=Jacob T. Schwartz, 79, Restless Scientist, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/science/04schwartz.html |access-date=2024-04-24 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> It was originally developed at the [[New York University]] (NYU) [[Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences]] in the late 1960s, by a group containing (Jack) [[Jacob T. Schwartz]],<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" /> R.B.K. Dewar, and E. Schonberg.<ref name=":0" /> Schwartz is credited with designing the language.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-85729-808-9 |title=Computational Logic and Set Theory |pages=vii |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-0-85729-808-9}}</ref>