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Guy Steele's new programming language

Guy Steele's new programming languageEver heard of APL?Great for formulas.You can write in ASCIIAccording to the manual you can use ASCII keywords for all the special symbols. So if you were just using a text editor you would write it kind of like a conventional program. But if you used...

Tags: Keyboards, keyboard, ASCII, APL, Fortress, programming, programming language, Guy Steele

Discussion threads 2007-01-17

Views from the smartest people in Sun's orbit

A JavaOne panel with some of the smartest people orbiting Sun provided some insight into where Java, porgramming models, Google and man-machine relationships are heading. Guy Steele, a Sun Fellow and a key participant in Java's creation, talked about his latest language project, Fortress, which he described as "doing for...

Tags: Fortress, Sun Microsystems Inc., Danny Hillis, Guy Steele

Blog posts 2005-06-30

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A-Gnomedexing we will go

I'll be at Chris Pirillo's Gnomedex Conference in Seattle later this week. Look me up if you are there. I'm particularly looking forward to seeing my old friend, Robert Steele, who is the foremost thinker on open source and collective intelligence in the world. Robert is speaking on Friday morning....

Tags: Seattle, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2007-08-08

Guy Steele's new programming language

How would you like to program like this?You can with Fortress, a new general-purpose statically typed language being developed by Guy Steeles Programming Language Research Group at Sun. Fortress allows the use of Unicode characters in program identifiers, as well as subscripts and superscripts ASCII equivalents are available. This and...

Tags: Fortress

Blog posts 2007-01-17

Resurrection Time?

Sun has a large group led by Guy Steele working on a language called "Fortress" -something they describe as "Java for scientists, Java for the programmers of a peta-scale supercomputer." Java started out as a hardware abstraction layer for set top TV boxes aimed at using the TV to provide...

Tags: Java, APL

Blog posts 2005-08-25

Develop more efficient code under the new Java language specifications

The latest specifications reflect the increasing maturity of Java. This chapter excerpt describes the current lexical structure of the Java programming language. The inner workings of any programming language are established by the agreed to language specifications. Reflecting the maturity of the Java programming language, the most...

Tags: Specification, Programming Language, Addison-Wesley, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Book chapters 2005-08-02