On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 08:16:35AM -0500, John McKown wrote:
> This may be a bit off-topic. If so, I apologize. But I do remember
> some people have expressed an interest in JVM based languages. This is
> a new one. It is freely licensed under the GPLv2 license. If of any
> importance (plus or minus), it is partially funded by the NSA. It is a
> "ployglot" language for Web site and Web app development, mainly.
> 
> https://github.com/wyvernlang/wyvern
> 
> http://motherboard.vice.com/read/new-nsa-funded-programming-language-is-all-programming-languages-in-one
> 
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aldrich/wyvern/
> 
> <quote>
> Wyvern is a new programming language designed to help developers be
> highly productive when writing high-assurance applications. The first
> major innovation in Wyvern is type-specific languages, a feature that
> allows programmers to create literals of a given type (e.g. a SQLQuery
> type) in a language appropriate to that type (e.g. SQL). We are
> currently working on the Wyvern object model and on providing
> architects with more architectural control.
> 
> The ongoing implementation of Wyvern is available on GitHub.

I'm not sure if this kind of opinion matters, but after looking at
github examples, I think the language is rather ugly.

Whatever happened to Ada?

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Regards,
Tomasz Rola

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