[Off topic] Radian language

[Steven D'Aprano]

For those interested in language design, the former head of RealBasic's 
development team, and current "compiler architect guy" for Microsoft's 
VisualBasic team, Mars Saxman, is developing an interesting programming 
language, Radian:

"The goal of the Radian project is to provide the concurrency benefits 
of a pure functional language inside the syntax and conceptual style 
of a high-level imperative language. This suggests two questions: 
what is it about a pure functional language that makes it useful for 
developing concurrent software, and what is it about an imperative 
syntax that makes the marriage of these two divergent linguistic 
styles worth the effort?"

Radian is heavily (but not uniquely) influenced by Python, although 
sometimes that influence is "what not to do".

http://www.radian-lang.org/



-- 
Steven