Friday January 12, 2007 New programming language launched
I'm pleased to say that the research group working on programming languages at Sun has taken the step of open sourcing the first release of their new programming language, Fortress. We debated the license to use for the language and settled on using BSD, a permissive class A license, so that the widest possible community - Free software people, academics and commercial researchers - would be free to co-evolve the language and its implementation with us.
Fortress is not for everyone. It's designed with high-performance computing (read: grid) in mind, and to quote the FAQ:
Fortress is a new language. Although many of its features are inspired by existing languages, it isn't an extension of any of them. Syntactically, many Fortress expressions closely resemble mathematical notation.But by releasing it with full source code on day one, I hope that the widest possible community will be able to form around it and make it into all it can be.
Posted by webmink
( Jan 12 2007, 10:14:24 PM PST )
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Well there's a turn-up for the books. Great to have another large open source organisation on the JCP.
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Gordon is right to raise the question of the competitive use of open source and Free software by computer corporations. The biggest problems with open source outlooks come from treating all players as good actors.
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Y'know, I don't think these are all defensive. One day people are going to wise up to the fact that IBM is neither cute nor fluffy and even if it was that wouldn't stop it being carnivorous.
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Registration for JavaOne is now open. This will be my eleventh conference out of eleven, God willing. I hereby declare "JavaOne2007" the tag for this event.
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A petition worth signing.
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Interesting resource funded by the academic sector in the UK.
Posted by webmink
( Jan 12 2007, 04:23:05 AM PST )
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