
Cecil (Programming Language)
Programming language, Arc (programming language), BBN LISP
Betascript Publishing
Published on 26. March 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-613-3-14930-4 (ISBN)
Description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles
available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Cecil is a pure
object-oriented programming language that was developed by Craig
Chambers at the University of Washington in 1992 to be part of the
Vortex project there. Cecil has many similarities to other
object-oriented languages, most notably Objective-C, Modula-3, and Self.
The main goals of the project were extensibility, orthogonality,
efficiency, and ease-of-use. The language supports multiple dispatch and
multimethods, dynamic inheritance, and optional static type checking.
Unlike most other OOP systems, Cecil allows subtyping and code
inheritance to be used separately, allowing run-time or external
extension of object classes or instances. Like Objective-C, all object
services in Cecil are invoked by message passing, and the language
supports run-time class identification.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-613-3-14930-4 (9786133149304)
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