Sun's Fortran replacement goes open source (ZDNet) [LWN.net]

ZDNet reports that Sun Microsystems is releasing Fortress, a replacement for the FORTRAN language with parallel programming capabilities, under the BSD license. "Sun Microsystems took a new open-source step this week, enlisting the outside world's help in an attempt to create a brand-new programming language called Fortress. On Tuesday, the company quietly released as open-source software a prototype Fortress "interpreter," a programming tool to execute Fortress programs line by line. "We're trying to engage academics and other third parties," said Eric Allen, a Sun Labs computer scientist and Fortress project leader, about the open-source move."

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Fortress vs. perl

Posted Jan 15, 2007 10:14 UTC (Mon) by dion (subscriber, #2764) [Link]

I saw a presentation on Fortress and the most memorable part of it was when the guy sad something like "ASCII is weak and holding us back, there are only 3 or 4 kinds of brackets, now we have UNICODE and many more brackets..."

I found that funny because I would always have guess that the first language to require unicode would have been perl.

Fortress vs. perl

Posted Jan 15, 2007 15:38 UTC (Mon) by sbishop (guest, #33061) [Link]

You guessed right, I believe. Larry Wall started talking about using
Unicode operators in Perl 6 a long time ago. I expect that's still the
plan, but I also stopped following the development of Perl 6 a long time
ago... It got to be too painful to watch.

At one point someone put together a "Periodic Table of the Operators", or
some such. You might try googling for that.

Fortress vs. perl

Posted Jan 15, 2007 17:17 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Hah, that's nothing. C++ has got not just Unicode identifiers but overloaded whitespace and even overloaded inter-token gaps, everyone's killer feature.

(;)))), of course)

ASCII is holding us back

Posted Jan 15, 2007 22:19 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

I miss variable names in Hebrew. It's every mathematician's wet dream to run loop for each member of Aleph1 :)

Looping on aleph1

Posted Jan 16, 2007 13:49 UTC (Tue) by dwheeler (guest, #1216) [Link]

Running a loop on aleph1 is easy. It's finishing that's the hard part :-).

Looping on aleph1

Posted Jan 16, 2007 15:32 UTC (Tue) by darrint (guest, #673) [Link]

Apparently you've never programmed in Haskell. ;-) er... wait... aleph1?

Looping on aleph1

Posted Jan 17, 2007 0:29 UTC (Wed) by brouhaha (subscriber, #1698) [Link]

You just need the forthcoming Cray 5 computer, which is so fast it runs an infinite loop in ten minutes.