Fortress - Programming language

Fortress is an open source programming language created in 2004.

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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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Early development of Fortress happened in Sun Labs
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Fortress appears in the TIOBE Index
See also: (14 related languages) Fortran, Scala, Haskell, Scheme, Common Lisp, Java, Unicode, Standard ML, ASCII, Emacs, LaTeX, X10, Chapel, SISAL
1 PLDB concepts link to Fortress: Chapel

Example from the Hello World Collection:

(* Hello World in Fortress *)

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

Example from Wikipedia:

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

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Comments	✓	(* A comment *)
MultiLine Comments	✓	(* A comment *)	(* *)
Semantic Indentation	X