Fortress Dead
Fortress
KindProgramming language
Appeared2006
Ended2012
StatusDead
CreatorGuy Steele / Sun Labs
FamilyML
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗
Scheme's co-creator tried to replace Fortran for supercomputing — growable notation, parallelism by default; Oracle pulled funding in 2012.
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Created by Guy L. Steele Jr.
Sun's Fortress (2007) — Guy Steele's team — was Fortran's intended successor for HPC: mathematical notation, parallel-by-default, and type-checked dimensions.\n\nDARPA funding ended; it was open-sourced in 2012. It remains the most ambitious scientific-language design never shipped.