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Fortress 1.0 was released on March 31, 2008.
Fortress is a new programming language designed for high-performance computing (HPC) with high programmability. Fortress features include:
* Implicit parallelism
* Transactions
* Flexible, space-aware, mathematical syntax
* Static checking (but with type inference)
* Definition of large parts of the language in its own libraries
http://projectfortress.sun.com/Projects/Community/
Note that the work was originally funded by DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems. http://www.highproductivity.org/
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