“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 [...]
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Fortress: A Next-Generation Programming Language Brought to You by Sun Labs
Monday, May 19, 2008
Fortress 1.0 Released
Sunday, April 20, 2008
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)
Operating without change
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
How powerful is a programming language in which you do not utilize mutation?
Apparently very powerful. So much, in fact, that it was used to build the first prototype of the Fortress programming language.
Prediction for 2008, a new functional programming motto will emerge:
“Purely functional data structures: Strong enough to build a fortress!”