Christian Vest Hansen wrote: > I think Clojure, authored by Rich Hickey, would be an idea for the "up > and coming" category (if Rich is prepared for that kind of attension). > Being a dialect of Lisp it is a functional and dynamic language, but > it also has support for runtime meta-data and type-hints and always > compile to bytecode (no pure interpretor) so the performance is good. > The most distinguishing feature, though, is that it is specifically > designed with concurrency in mind: all built-in types are immutable, > there's a software transactional memory implementation, and an agent > system is used for asynchonous concurrent task execution. > > The project is in the alpha stages after two years of development. > It's looking good and a small community is growing around it. > > Main website: http://www.clojure.com/ > Screen casts and video presentations: http://clojure.blip.tv/
Yeah, I'd love to get a status update from the Rich directly...maybe I'll try to email him, or...are you out there Rich? - Charlie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
