An accessible reference for Wyvern is

Nistor, Ligia, et al.  "Wyvern: A simple, typed, and pure
object-oriented language".  Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on
MechAnisms for SPEcialization, Generalization and inHerItance. ACM,
2013.

it is lucid enough, but to read it easily you will need to be
comfortable with and tolerant of current computer-science jargon.
(The acronym MASPEGH ought, for example, to have been strangled at or,
better, aborted before birth, but it appears to be flourishing.)

John McKown's notion that Wyvern is a JVM-based language would not, I
must admit, have occurred to me; but it is a suggestive one.

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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