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Author: | bunga |
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Date: | Sun, 9 Oct 2011 15:33:21 |
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What is NewClay, in short?
NewClay is an offspring of Clay, a general-purpose
constraint-based generic-programming language with support
for the system-level, developed at ClayLabs in Cerala,
India. NewClay is a testbed for new ideas not easily
implementable in the original Clay compiler.
NewClay is heavily inspired by other programming languages,
mixing the paradigm of generic programming, the clarity of
constraint-based formal-logical programming and the ease
and flexibility of functional programming with further
concepts from information science, like "move semantics",
into a syntax remembering to scripting languages. The
syntax is weighted and a good compromise between
readability and efficiency. Both simple and complex
problems can be addressed in a straight-forward and
intuitive way. Though, it should not be denied that
learning to think in NewClay can take a while because the
multi-paradigm approach requires a decent academic
background to be mastered professionally.
Some features are already backported to Clay. However, as
of today it is undecided if NewClay will be the official
new Clay or if both languages will continue in parallel and
on their own rights.
Discussion about NewClay is not separated from Clay and
takes place in the same FreeNode channel or via the Clay
mailing list. For more details about Clay and how to get
into contact visit "http://ClayLabs.com". For the NewClay
source code, go to "https://github.com/jckarter/newclay".
Both projects are available under the liberal BSD license.
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