PLNews: Programming Language News

News, articles, announcements and information focusing on computer programming languages and their implementations.

Nov. 02, 2009

Fortress Blog Announced

2009-11-02 20:15:45

Languages :: Fortress, Websites

Guy Steele has announced the creation of a blog at the ProjectFortress Community site.

Apr. 01, 2008

Fortress 1.0 Released

2008-04-01 06:16:42

Languages :: Fortress

Fortress 1.0 has been released. Fortress is "a general-purpose, statically typed, component-based programming language designed for producing robust high-performance software," developed by the Programming Language Research group at Sun Microsystems Laboratories.

Mar. 07, 2007

Fortress Language Specification v 1.0 beta Available

2007-03-07 23:57:00

Languages :: Fortress

It has been announced that the Fortress Language Specification v 1.0 beta (~2MB .pdf) document is now available. "Fortress is a new programming language designed for high-performance computing (HPC) with high programmability.

Jan. 10, 2007

Fortress Implementation Source Code Available

2007-01-10 09:02:00

Languages :: Fortress

It has been announced that the source code to a preliminary Fortress interpreter is now available. "Fortress is a new programming language designed for high-performance computing (HPC) with high programmability.

May 14, 2006

'The Fortress Language Specification, Version 0.903' Available

2006-05-14 22:27:00

Languages :: Fortress

It has been announced that the 'The Fortress Language Specification, Version 0.903' (~1.7 MB .pdf) document is now available.

Fortress is "a general-purpose, statically typed, component-based programming language designed for producing robust high-performance software," developed by the Programming Language Research group at Sun Microsystems Laboratories.

Nov. 19, 2005