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This reminded me of the Fortress language after a long time. It was a MODERN Fortran like language that Guy Steele and all were developing at Sun https://en.

by srean 7y ago

This reminded me of the Fortress language after a long time. It was a MODERN Fortran like language that Guy Steele and all were developing at Sun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language... It did not stand much of a chance once Oracle took over.

stephencanon 7y ago
Fortress never got any real traction and was effectively dead well before Oracle purchased Sun.
- riffraff 7y ago
  IIRC the point of fortress was to win DARPA's high productivity computing challenge, having failed at that it just remained a random research language. Which is a pity, because it had some very interesting ideas, imvho.