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The Fortress Language Spec v0.618The Fortress Language Spec v0.618 We've already discussed the Fortress project at Sun's Programming Language Research lab. The project seems to be progressing well: they have now released a preliminary version of the language spec as a tech report. This should help assuage the folks who were grumbling about the hype and market-speak of Sun's promotional article. Their PL research team includes some real Smarty McSmartpants, so I expect really good things from them. From a cursory glance at the spec, there seem to be many interesting features, including:
Future work includes proving type soundness, apparently. It is so much fun when the luminaries start working on new languages. History in the making! |
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