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Introducing The Heron Programming Language

Posted by timothy on from the you-must-be-a-loon dept.

Christopher Diggins writes "The Heron programming language, is a new general-purpose multi-paradigm programming language in the style of C++ which is starting to make waves. The popular Polish software development magazine Software 2.0 is featuring an article on Heron, in its first English version of the magazine slated to appear in February 2005. A preview of the Heron article is available."

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  1. Thoughts by RAMMS+EIN · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "multi-paradigm" - Ah, like Lisp.

    "in the style of C++" - Ouch.

    Seriously, multi-paradigm is good. Or rather, single paradigm is bad. No paradigm is ideal for every case, so a language that enforces one paradigm (e.g. Java) will be ill-suited to many situations.

    What does "in the style of C++" mean, though? Does it mean Heron is another language with a standard too large to fit in a programmer's head, and a hellish syntax that is difficult to parse for both humans and machines?

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