Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Metaphor and Fortress - New programming Languages

Advances in programming languages from Assembly, C, C++ to C# or Java absorbed the complexities of programming. However, modern software development is not just programming. Lot of work happens outside the programming. Dr. Alan Perlis a prominent US Computer scientist said that “A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.” Metaphor is such a next Generation Language by Victoria Livschitz of Sun Microsystems.



Features of Metaphor

Following are the Four Features of the Metaphor Language

  1. Distributed Runtime Environment

  2. Contextual Programming

  3. Support for autonomous executable entities

  4. Support for Software evolution and re-use
To find out more about this, read more in my blog Java and Technology / Metaphor and Fortress – New Programming Languages

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