Editing CLU (programming language) (section)

== Influence ==
CLU and [[Ada (programming language)|Ada]] were major inspirations for [[C++]] [[Template (C++)|templates]].<ref name="history-of-cpp"/>

CLU's exception handling mechanisms influenced later languages like C++,<ref name="history-of-cpp"/> [[Java (programming language)|Java]] and many others.{{Citation needed|date=August 2020}}

[[Sather]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]], and [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]] include [[iterator]]s, which first appeared in CLU.<ref name="History"/>

[[Perl]] and [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]] took multiple assignment and multiple returns from function calls from CLU.<ref>{{Cite conference |last1= Ierusalimschy |first1= R. |last2= De Figueiredo |first2= L. H. |last3= Celes |first3= W. |doi= 10.1145/1238844.1238846 |chapter= The evolution of Lua |title= Proceedings of the third ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages – HOPL III |pages= 2-1–2-26 |year= 2007 |isbn= 978-1-59593-766-7 |chapter-url=http://www.lua.org/doc/hopl.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100703022703/http://www.lua.org/doc/hopl.pdf |archive-date=2010-07-03 |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Python (programming language)|Python]] and [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]] borrowed [[call by sharing]], the ''yield'' statement,<ref name="Appfolio">{{cite web |url=https://engineering.appfolio.com/appfolio-engineering/2019/7/3/rubys-roots-and-matzs-leadership |title=Ruby's Roots and Matz's Leadership |website=Appfolio Engineering |quote=Matz feels that blocks are the greatest invention of Ruby (I agree.) He got the idea from a 1970s language called CLU from MIT, which called them 'iterators'... |date=2019-11-08 |access-date=2019-11-15}}</ref> and multiple assignment.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Functional Programming HOWTO — Python 3.8.3 documentation|url=https://docs.python.org/3/howto/functional.html|website=docs.python.org|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref>