The Fan Programming Language

[BCS]

Reply to Paul,

> From a blog highlighted on java.net --
> 
> http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/the_fan_language_is_it
> 
> The blog entry speculates Fan might be a ("the") next-generation Java,
> i.e., not an extension of Java but a new language that avoids Java's
> shortcomings. Whether it succeeds is in the eye of the beholder.
> 
> There are some interesting similarities with the D programming
> language. In particular there is a D-like immutability concept. In Fan
> there is only one keyword ("const") with multiple meanings -- const
> variables, const classes and const functions... And there is only one
> kind of immutability -- const objects can never change. No mention is
> made of transitivity. I don't know whether it is ignored or implicit.
> 
> Anyhoo, might be worth looking at.
> 
> Paul
> 

"Fan runs on the JVM and the .NET runtime. It manages this by writing to 
a temporary intermediate format, which then gets further compiled to the 
right bytecode."


Source -> Fan-IL -> JVM/MSIL -> bin -> micro-ops -> ...

How far removed from the actual cpu can you get!

(Note: I'm not saying this is a problem...)