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]
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;
}
}