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Fort occurs as draft specification for the newly programming language currently developed by Sun Microsystems as part of the DARPA-funded supercomputing initiative.
One of a language designers is Guy L. Steele, Jr., whose previous work includes Scheme and Java. These are arranged to exist as the successor to Fortran, with improvements including Unicode support and code syntax that is similar to mathematical notation. A language is non designed to exist as similar to Fortran. Syntactically, it virtually all resembles Standard ML and Haskell.
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The Fortress Language Spec v0.618 Blog entry and discussion about this older version of the spec. Slashdot.org - Fortress: The Successor to Fortran? Short summary and discussion. Fortress: A New Programming Language for the Scientific Community A presentation by Guy Steele. Slides available in PDF, and talk available in MP3. The Fortress Language Specification version 0.707 Very detailed description of the language (about 150 pages). Fortress programming language - Wikipedia Encyclopedia article with links and references. |
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