Fortress is a draft specification for a programming language, initially developed by Sun Microsystems as part of a DARPA-funded supercomputing initiative. One of the language designers is Guy L. Steele Jr., whose previous work includes Scheme, Common Lisp, and Java. A JVM compliant implementation (Fortress 1.0) was released in April 2008.
The name "Fortress" is intended to connote a secure Fortran, i.e., "a language for high-performance computati...
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Fortress is a draft specification for a programming language, initially developed by Sun Microsystems as part of a DARPA-funded supercomputing initiative. One of the language designers is Guy L. Steele Jr., whose previous work includes Scheme, Common Lisp, and Java. A JVM compliant implementation (Fortress 1.0) was released in April 2008.
The name "Fortress" is intended to connote a secure Fortran, i.e., "a language for high-performance computation that provides abstraction and type safety on par with modern programming language principles". Its improvements include Unicode support and concrete syntax that is similar to mathematical notation. The language is not designed to be similar to Fortran. Syntactically, it most resembles Scala, Standard ML, and Haskell. Fortress is being designed from the outset to have multiple syntactic stylesheets. Source code can be rendered as ASCII text, in Unicode, or as a prettied image. This will allow for support of mathematical symbols and other...
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