Via Lemonodor:
Guy Steele is writing a new language. Called Fortress, it's intended as a replacement for FORTRAN — a language for mathematical/scientific computing.
This could be interesting. It overlaps with what I'm trying to do, but I don't think there's any need to get scared (yet). It may well be, for example, that Fortress provides a sensible target language for the higher level stuff that I'm working on. If a load of money is poured into optimising Fortress compilers, then that work could be used by targeting Fortress as a sort of assembly language.
The idea of making it look like math is interesting: that presumably means it can't be programmed except with dedicated editors. Not good for uptake, I wouldn't have thought.
This is apparently Sun saying, "Java isn't and will never be a great choice for scientific computing."
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