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Asteroid Programming Language Documentation

Asteroid is an open source, dynamically typed, multi-paradigm programming language heavily influenced by Python, Rust, ML, and Prolog currently under development at the University of Rhode Island. Asteroid implements a new programming paradigm called pattern-matching oriented programming. In this new programming paradigm patterns and pattern matching are supported by all major programming language constructs making programs succinct and robust. Furthermore, patterns themselves are first-class citizens and as such can be passed to and returned from functions as well as manipulated computationally.

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