Sun's Fortress programming language is intended for general purpose but high performance computing. It's a re-invention and integration from scratch of some interesting ideas including automatic ...

Guy Steele from Sun/Oracle Labs writes that the Fortress programming language project is wrapping up after nearly a decade of research. After working nearly a decade on the design, development, and ...

You may recall that one of the things that came of of Sun’s failed bid in the DARPA HPCS program is Fortress, Sun’s proposed parallel programming language. Josh Simons posted a slide deck that intros ...