Iswim

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  ISWIM
       
          If You See What I Mean.  Landin 1966.  ISWIM is {purely
          functional}, a sugaring of {lambda-calculus}, and the ancestor
          of most modern {applicative} languages.  An ISWIM program is a
          single expression qualified by 'where' clauses (auxiliary


          definitions including equations among variables), conditional
          expressions and function definitions.  ISWIM was the first
          language to use {lazy evaluation} and introduced the {offside
          rule} for indentation.
       
          ["The Next 700 Programming Languages", P.J. Landin, CACM
          9(3):157-166 (Mar 1966)].