Noop
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Designed by | Alex Eagle, Christian Gruber |
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First appeared | 2009 |
Typing discipline | static |
License | Apache License 2.0 |
Website | code |
Noop (/ˈnoʊ.ɒp/, like no-op) was a project by Google engineers Alex Eagle and Christian Gruber aiming to develop a new programming language. Noop attempted to blend the best features of "old" and "new" languages, while syntactically encouraging well accepted programming best-practices. Noop was initially targeted to run on the Java Virtual Machine.[1]
Noop progressed past its initial proposals into a limited interpreter, but according to the project owners they no longer intend to pursue the language any further.[2] Among the reasons cited for discontinuing work on the language was the initial release of Kotlin, which achieves many of the language goals of Noop.[3] The Noop language can be executed as an interpreted language, as a compiled language, or as java code.[4]
Creation[]
The Noop language was created by Google. It was presented during the 2009 edition of the JVM Language Summit held in Santa Clara, California from September 16 to 18, 2009.[5]
Examples[]
Hello world in Noop
import noop.Application;
import noop.Console;
class HelloWorld(Console console) implements Application {
Int main(List args) {
String s = "Hello World!";
console.println(s);
return 0;
}
}
References[]
- ^ "Noop - project hosting on Google Code". Archived from the original on 2016-03-11.
- ^ "Noop - Is this project dead?".
- ^ "Kotlin 1.0 released and I'm excited".
- ^ "Google Develops 'Noop' Language". Retrieved 2016-04-09.
- ^ "Noop: Google's Language for the JVM". InfoWorld. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
External links[]
- Object-oriented programming languages
- Discontinued Google software
- JVM programming languages