[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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