Monday, June 02, 2003

Adenine: A Metadata Programming Language. Adenine is used to program parts of MIT's Haystack information manager. It blends some elements of Lisp, Java, and Python quite nicely with native support for RDF graphs. There's a longer document with some code examples; a large amount of Adenine code is included in the Haystack distribution. Languages that run off a persistent free-form data store simply rock. [Lambda the Ultimate] 7:15:16 PM    comment []

Preview of Java 1.5. An early access prototype implementation of the proposed new J2SE 1.5 language features is available. The prototype includes generics (JSR 14), typesafe enums, varargs, autoboxing, foreach loops, and static import (JSR 201). In other words, all the new language features planned for 1.5 except metadata (JSR 175). Many of the new features have been previously discussed here. Now we can finally play with them. [Lambda the Ultimate] 4:07:45 PM    comment []

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