Noop (, like ''no-op'') was a project by

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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

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. 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. 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. The Noop language can be executed as an interpreted language, as a compiled language, or as java code.

Creation

The Noop language was created by Google. It was presented during the 2009 edition of the

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Language Summit held in

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from September 16 to 18, 2009.

Examples

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in Noop import noop.Application; import noop.Console; class HelloWorld(Console console) implements Application

References

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External links

H-Online article about Noop

Article about Noop by The Register

Article about Noop by ADT Magazine
Object-oriented programming languages Discontinued Google software JVM programming languages