Fortress (programming language)
| Fortress | |
|---|---|
| Paradigms | Multi-paradigm: structured, imperative, procedural |
| Designed by | Guy L. Steele Jr., others |
| Developer | Sun Labs |
| First appeared | 2006 |
| Final release | 1.0_5033
/ September 7, 2011 |
| Typing discipline | Static |
| Scope | Lexical |
| Platform | Java SE 1.6+ |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| License | BSD |
| Website | github |
| Influenced by | |
| Fortran, Scala, Haskell | |
Fortress is a discontinued experimental programming language for high-performance computing, created by Sun Microsystems with funding from The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) High Productivity Computing Systems project. One of the language designers was Guy L. Steele Jr., whose prior work includes Scheme, Common Lisp, and Java.