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Noop

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Noop
Designed byAlex Eagle, Christian Gruber
First appeared2009; 15 years ago (2009)
Typing disciplinestatic
LicenseApache License 2.0
Websitecode.google.com/p/noop

Noop (/ˈn.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

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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

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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

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  1. ^ "Noop - project hosting on Google Code". Archived from the original on 2015-03-21. Retrieved 2015-03-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ "Noop - Is this project dead?".
  3. ^ "Kotlin 1.0 released and I'm excited".
  4. ^ "Google Develops 'Noop' Language". Retrieved 2016-04-09.
  5. ^ "Noop: Google's Language for the JVM". InfoWorld. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
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