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SPARK

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SPARK

Summary

SPARK is a programming language[1]. SPARK ranks in the top 6% of programming_language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (169 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • SPARK's instance of is recorded as programming language[3].
  • SPARK's instance of is recorded as procedural programming language[4].
  • SPARK's instance of is recorded as implementation of a programming language[5].
  • SPARK's instance of is recorded as free and open-source software[6].
  • SPARK's developer is recorded as Altran[7].
  • SPARK's developer is recorded as University of Southampton[8].
  • SPARK's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2015001170[9].
  • SPARK's copyright license is recorded as GNU General Public License, version 3.0[10].
  • SPARK's programmed in is recorded as Q154755[11].
  • +1988-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of SPARK[12].
  • SPARK's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01qplz[13].
  • SPARK's official website is recorded as https://www.adacore.com/sparkpro/[14].
  • SPARK's source code repository URL is recorded as https://github.com/AdaCore/spark2014[15].
  • SPARK's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/spark-ada[16].
  • SPARK's different from is recorded as Q11244114[17].
  • SPARK's programming paradigm is recorded as procedural programming[18].
  • SPARK's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[19].
  • SPARK's Repology project name is recorded as spark-adacore[20].
  • SPARK's typing discipline is recorded as nominative typing[21].
  • SPARK's typing discipline is recorded as static typing[22].
  • SPARK's typing discipline is recorded as strong typing[23].
  • SPARK's typing discipline is recorded as safe typing[24].
  • SPARK's dialect of computer language is recorded as Q154755[25].
  • SPARK's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007411089005171[26].
  • SPARK's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2781215313[27].

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Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include programming language[3], procedural programming language[4], implementation of a programming language[5], and free and open-source software[6].

History and Context

+1988-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of SPARK[12].

Why It Matters

SPARK ranks in the top 6% of programming_language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (169 views/month).[2] SPARK has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] SPARK is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

procedural programming procedural programming language programming language

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  7. [9] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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