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Goals

The Kestrel Programming Language

Part of the documentation for the Kestrel language
by Douglas W. Jones
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Department of Computer Science

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Goals

The Kestrel programming language is a refinement of Falcon, a language designed in late 2012 as a target language for a compiler construction course. Therefore, one of its primary goals is compactness. Among its other goals: