Fortress

Fortress is an actively used programming language created in 2004. Fortress is a discontinued experimental programming language for high-performance computing, created by Sun Microsystems with funding from DARPA's High Productivity Computing Systems project. One of the language designers was Guy L. Steele Jr., whose previous work includes Scheme, Common Lisp, and Java.. Read more on Wikipedia...

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• Fortress first appeared in 2004
• See also: fortran, scala, haskell, scheme, common-lisp, java, unicode, standard-ml, ascii, emacs-editor, latex, mathematical-notation, x10, chapel, sisal
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Example code from the Hello World Collection:

(* Hello World in Fortress *)

export Executable
run(args) = print "Hello, world!"

Example code from Wikipedia:

component hello
export Executable
run() = println(“Hello, World!”)
end

Last updated October 14th, 2019