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Ceylon

Summary

Ceylon is an object-based language[1]. Ceylon draws 25 Wikipedia views per month (object_based_language category, ranking #17 of 28).[2]

Key Facts

  • Ceylon was influenced by Scala[3].
  • Ceylon was influenced by Smalltalk[4].
  • Ceylon was influenced by ML[5].
  • Ceylon was influenced by Lisp[6].
  • Ceylon was influenced by Java[7].
  • Ceylon's instance of is recorded as object-based language[8].
  • Ceylon's instance of is recorded as free software[9].
  • Ceylon's instance of is recorded as programming language[10].
  • Ceylon's instance of is recorded as functional programming language[11].
  • Ceylon's instance of is recorded as multi-paradigm programming language[12].
  • Ceylon's instance of is recorded as imperative programming language[13].
  • Ceylon's instance of is recorded as JVM language[14].
  • Sri Lanka is named after Ceylon[15].
  • Ceylon's developer is recorded as Red Hat[16].
  • Ceylon's developer is recorded as Gavin King[17].
  • Ceylon's copyright license is recorded as Apache Software License 2.0[18].
  • Ceylon's programmed in is recorded as Java[19].
  • Ceylon's operating system is recorded as cross-platform[20].
  • Ceylon's software version identifier is recorded as 1.1.0[21].
  • Ceylon's software version identifier is recorded as 1.2.0[22].
  • Ceylon's software version identifier is recorded as 1.3.1[23].
  • Ceylon's software version identifier is recorded as 1.3.0[24].
  • Ceylon's software version identifier is recorded as 1.2.1[25].
  • Ceylon's software version identifier is recorded as 1.2.2[26].
  • Ceylon's software version identifier is recorded as 1.3.2[27].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include object-based language[8], free software[9], programming language[10], functional programming language[11], multi-paradigm programming language[12], and imperative programming language[13].

History and Context

+2011-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Ceylon[28]. Sri Lanka is named after Ceylon[15].

Why It Matters

Ceylon draws 25 Wikipedia views per month (object_based_language category, ranking #17 of 28).[2] Ceylon has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29]

Related Entities

cross-platform free software functional programming language Gavin King imperative programming language Java JavaScript Java virtual machine JVM language Lisp ML multi-paradigm programming language object-based language programming language Red Hat Scala Smalltalk Sri Lanka

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [16] ↑ . ceylon-lang.org. Retrieved . ceylon-lang.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [18] ↑ . Open Hub. Retrieved . ceylon-lang.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [19] ↑ . Open Hub. Retrieved . openhub.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [21] ↑ . ceylon-lang.org. ceylon-lang.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [22] ↑ . ceylon-lang.org. Retrieved . ceylon-lang.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [23] ↑ . api.github.com. Retrieved . api.github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [24] ↑ . api.github.com. Retrieved . api.github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [25] ↑ . api.github.com. Retrieved . api.github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [26] ↑ . api.github.com. Retrieved . api.github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [27] ↑ . api.github.com. Retrieved . api.github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [3] ↑ . gitter.im. Retrieved . gitter.im. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [4] ↑ . gitter.im. Retrieved . gitter.im. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [5] ↑ . gitter.im. Retrieved . gitter.im. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [6] ↑ . gitter.im. Retrieved . gitter.im. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [7] ↑ . ceylon-lang.org. Retrieved . ceylon-lang.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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