[srean]

I loved how the Fortress language was coming slong till Oracle killed it. It was an interesting mix if Fortran and functional programming ideas with thoughtful ideas on parallelization.

Fortress (programming language) - Wikipedia "Fortress (programming language) - Wikipedia" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language...

[pohl]

It’s a tragedy. I feel the work they were doing was important. At least we got this talk from guy steele

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw6TaiXzHAE

[srean]

Yes. I was loving how it was shaping up.