Fortress
Maybe the boss of sun have seen that many people have bought computers with a dual core processor. A new scripting language called fortress is released for high-performance computing. The name looks a bit similiar to fortran and it is indeed considered to be a replacement of the old famous language.
The new language is declared to be rethought from groud up, although it runs on JVM 1.5 currently. The most interesting part I found is that fortress programmer have to explicitly declare when software should not run in parallel! Anyone who had a headache by the parallelism of c++ and java could hope the new language could save their lot of time if the sun people have done what they've said.
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Very cool, indeed. I heard about this a while ago, but totally forgot about it. This is especially interesting to me as a pattern-recognition student: I need an efficient language that can handle complex mathematical functions on large amounts of data. I am currently downloading the Fortress language specification to see if it is appropriate for such a scenario.