[PRL] Schemer behind new Sun language

Dave Herman dherman at ccs.neu.edu
Fri May 11 00:09:03 EDT 2007


Sun has released a new language called JavaFX Script, a scripting 
language for JavaFX, which appears to be a new Java-based platform 
competing with Flash and MS Silverlight. At a glance, it's a statically 
typed object-oriented language with inference as well as some familiar 
functional bells and whistles like closures and comprehensions.

Turns out Per Bothner, the developer of Kawa, has been hired by Sun to 
work on a compiler for JavaFX:

     http://sources.redhat.com/ml/kawa/2007-q2/msg00014.html

Dave



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