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Alice (programming language)
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<p>Alice ML is a <a href="/facts/General-purpose_programming_language/LyA5zR3M">general-purpose</a>, <a href="/facts/High-level_programming_language/smjECUhx">high-level</a>, <a href="/facts/Comparison_of_multi-paradigm_programming_languages/ubIddUMB">multi-paradigm</a>, <a href="/facts/Functional_programming/cdxqPEIM">functional</a> <a href="/facts/Programming_language/cWTYbgWa">programming language</a> designed by the Programming Systems Laboratory at <a href="/facts/Saarland_University/qe3Qc6z4">Saarland University</a>, <a href="/facts/Saarbr%25C3%25BCcken/0PnbwXz9">Saarbrücken</a>, <a href="/facts/Germany/paluuWBX">Germany</a>. It is a <a href="/facts/Dialect_(computing)/cWTYbgWa">dialect</a> of <a href="/facts/Standard_ML/4LaEq9tA">Standard ML</a>, augmented with support for <a href="/facts/Lazy_evaluation/mD3DxDkc">lazy evaluation</a>, <a href="/facts/Concurrency_(computer_science)/Ctnrrq4A">concurrency</a> (<a href="/facts/Thread_(computer_science)/hh8WHyPd">multithreading</a> and <a href="/facts/Distributed_computing/o5nyhqTF">distributed computing</a> via <a href="/facts/Remote_procedure_call/uMMb9CQw">remote procedure calls</a>) and <a href="/facts/Constraint_programming/rgkCK5bD">constraint programming</a>. </p>