Noop

Noop (/ˈnoʊ.ɒp/, like no-op) was a project by Google engineers Alex Eagle and Christian Gruber aiming to develop a new programming language. Noop attempted to blend the best features of "old" and "new" languages, while syntactically encouraging well accepted programming best-practices. Noop was initially targeted to run on the Java Virtual Machine.[1]

This article is about Noop, the programming language. For the processor instruction (usually written "NOP"), see NOP (code). For other uses, see Noop (disambiguation).
Noop
Designed byAlex Eagle, Christian Gruber
First appeared2009 (2009)
Typing disciplinestatic
LicenseApache License 2.0
Websitecode.google.com/p/noop

Noop progressed past its initial proposals into a limited interpreter, but according to the project owners they no longer intend to pursue the language any further.[2] Among the reasons cited for discontinuing work on the language was the initial release of Kotlin, which achieves many of the language goals of Noop.[3] The Noop language can be executed as an interpreted language, as a compiled language, or as java code.[4]

Creation

The Noop language was created by Google. It was presented during the 2009 edition of the JVM Language Summit held in Santa Clara, California from September 16 to 18, 2009.[5]

Examples

Hello world in Noop

import noop.Application;
import noop.Console;

class HelloWorld(Console console) implements Application {

  Int main(List args) {
    String s = "Hello World!";

    console.println(s);
    return 0;
  }
}

References
  1. "Noop - project hosting on Google Code". Archived from the original on 2015-03-21. Retrieved 2015-03-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. "Noop - Is this project dead?".
  3. "Kotlin 1.0 released and I'm excited".
  4. "Google Develops 'Noop' Language". Retrieved 2016-04-09.
  5. "Noop: Google's Language for the JVM". InfoWorld. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
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