Google Delivers New Java-like Language, Noop

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Post by kasunh » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 9:56 AM UTC

Google Delivers New Java-like Language, Noop
eweek.com

Re: Google Delivers New Java-like Language, Noop

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Post by waldrews » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 10:40 AM UTC

Wait it's by Google? I thought it was just hosted on Google code, as per this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=826945

Re: Google Delivers New Java-like Language, Noop

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Post by Sachmic » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 10:51 AM UTC

waldrews wrote: post #2

Wait it's by Google? I thought it was just hosted on Google code, as per this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=826945

It's made by googlers, but I don't think it's officially endorsed by Google.

Re: Google Delivers New Java-like Language, Noop

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Post by plinkplonk » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 11:06 AM UTC

Sachmic wrote: post #3

waldrews wrote: post #2

Wait it's by Google? I thought it was just hosted on Google code, as per this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=826945

It's made by googlers, but I don't think it's officially endorsed by Google.

"It's made by googlers"

Yes it is. One of the authors seems to be an "internal software development coach" (source: http://www.geekinasuit.com/2009/03/hiatus-should-be-over.htm...) at Google. The other author's blog seems to be down atm (http://jakeherringbone.com/).

Re: Google Delivers New Java-like Language, Noop

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Post by davidw » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 11:43 AM UTC

I don't much care for the Bay Area, but I really wish I could have gone to the JVM Language Summit. Looks like a lot of fun.

Re: Google Delivers New Java-like Language, Noop

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Post by rivo » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 11:59 AM UTC

Can anyone point us to some code examples? I had a hard time finding any.

Re: Google Delivers New Java-like Language, Noop

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Post by jjs » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 12:11 PM UTC

That article is practically unreadable without Adblock.

Re: Google Delivers New Java-like Language, Noop

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Post by gjm11 » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 12:17 PM UTC

rivo wrote: post #6

Can anyone point us to some code examples? I had a hard time finding any.

http://code.google.com/p/noop/source/browse/#hg/examples/noo...

but there's scarcely anything there. Which is all rather weird; I'd have thought that (1) one of the first things you do when designing a language is to mock up a load of example code to see how your ideas work together, and (2) you want to make that available to anyone looking at your language so that they can get a feel for what it's meant to be like. Oh well.

Re: Google Delivers New Java-like Language, Noop

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Post by DanielStraight » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 12:21 PM UTC

gjm11 wrote: post #8

rivo wrote: post #6

Can anyone point us to some code examples? I had a hard time finding any.

http://code.google.com/p/noop/source/browse/#hg/examples/noo... but there's scarcely anything there. Which is all rather weird; I'd have thought that (1) one of the first things you do when designing a language is to mock up a load of example code to see how your ideas work together, and (2) you want to make that available to anyone looking at your language so that they can get a feel for what it's meant to be like.…

Vaporlang?

Re: Google Delivers New Java-like Language, Noop

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Post by Tichy » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 12:23 PM UTC

What do they mean by a language that supports dependency injection? What would be an example for a language that doesn't support it - stateless languages, I suppose? Because if there is no state, how to remember the dependencies?

Edit: Just checked if it is April 1st, but nope, it isn't. They must be serious.