Fortress (programming language)

Fortress
ParadigmsMulti-paradigm: structured, imperative, procedural
Designed byGuy L. Steele Jr., others
DeveloperSun Labs
First appeared2006 (2006)
Final release
1.0_5033 / September 7, 2011 (2011-09-07)
Typing disciplineStatic
ScopeLexical
PlatformJava SE 1.6+
OSCross-platform
LicenseBSD
Websitegithub.com/stokito/fortress-lang
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.