Pike (programming language)

Pike is a general-purpose, high-level, cross-platform programming language whose syntax resembles that of C. It is unusual among dynamic languages in being both statically and dynamically typed: programmers write explicit type declarations, yet the flexible type system still permits the rapid development style associated with dynamically typed languages while keeping some of the checking benefits of static typing. Pike provides garbage collection, a set of advanced built-in data types and first-class anonymous functions, and it supports several programming paradigms, among them object-oriented, functional and imperative programming. The language is free software distributed under the GPL, LGPL and MPL licenses.