“Fortress: A Next-Generation Programming Language Brought to You by Sun Labs” is the first session I attended at Java One 08. Being that this is my first time at Java One, I was pretty excited to see how both this session, and, the entire conference, would pan out.
Per her introduction, her background is big [...]
Guy Steele’s latest programming language Fortress has been released.
The Fortress programming language is a general-purpose, statically typed, component-based programming language designed for producing robust high-performance software with high programmability.
In many ways, Fortress is intended to be a “growable language”, i.e., a language that can be gracefully extended and applied in new and unanticipated contexts.
(via PLNews)