Obix language available

[Christian Neumanns]

Hello everybody,

A first experimental version of Obix is now available free of charge.

Obix is a new, high level, object-oriented programming language, designed
from the ground up to increase
- reliability
- productivity
- ease-of-use
of professional software development.

Obix runs on Linux and Windows. The compiler produces Java as target code.
Hence applications written in Obix run on multiple platforms.

Obix has built-in features which do not exist in most programming languages,
but which I consider as essential for creating reliable and maintainable
software, such as:
- programming with checks (like design by contract)
- built-in automated software testing
- default input and multiple output arguments
- favor for immutable objects
- prohibition of popular, but error-prone and unnecessary programming
techniques
and others

You can find much more information at www.obix.lu and download a version
running on Linux or Windows.

I would greatly appreciate getting feedback about things you like, dislike
or miss. Moreover, everyone interested to participate in an open-source
developer community is very welcome.

 

[Dave Monroe]

Hello everybody,

A first experimental version of Obix is now available free of charge.

Obix is a new, high level, object-oriented programming language, designed
from the ground up to increase
- reliability
- productivity
- ease-of-use
of professional software development.

Obix runs on Linux and Windows. The compiler produces Java as target code.
Hence applications written in Obix run on multiple platforms.

Obix has built-in features which do not exist in most programming languages,
but which I consider as essential for creating reliable and maintainable
software, such as:
- programming with checks (like design by contract)
- built-in automated software testing
- default input and multiple output arguments
- favor for immutable objects
- prohibition of popular, but error-prone and unnecessary programming
techniques
and others

You can find much more information at www.obix.lu and download a version
running on Linux or Windows.

I would greatly appreciate getting feedback about things you like, dislike
or miss. Moreover, everyone interested to participate in an open-source
developer community is very welcome.

Wonderful; another programming language.

How many times are we going to solve this problem? We're hip deep in
programming languages. Enough already.

 

[Roedy Green]

How many times are we going to solve this problem? We're hip deep in
programming languages. Enough already.

I created a new language, Abundance, where I was free to experiment
without getting anyone else's permission. It is great fun. The
problem came when I thought the world will beat a path to my better
mousetrap. That does not happen. However, these alternative
languages act as living experiments for new ideas. You may notice
that I push more new ideas for Java than average. I could not have
done that with such confidence did I not know the ideas were possible.

The alternative is to push for untested ideas that sound good on paper
or to stay stuck without innovation.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/abundance.html

 

[Dave Monroe]

I created a new language, Abundance, where I was free to experiment
without getting anyone else's permission. It is great fun. The
problem came when I thought the world will beat a path to my better
mousetrap. That does not happen. However, these alternative
languages act as living experiments for new ideas. You may notice
that I push more new ideas for Java than average. I could not have
done that with such confidence did I not know the ideas were possible.

The alternative is to push for untested ideas that sound good on paper
or to stay stuck without innovation.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/abundance.html

I'm all for innovation. But there isn't a new programming language
that solves a problem that hasn't already been addressed years ago.

As for programming just for the heck of it, I enjoy it, I've done a
lot of it, and it's a lot easier if you become expert in a given
language that does 99% of what you want and stick with it.

I was a COBOL programmer who learned C who learned Perl who learned
Java.

I also picked up Korn shell and awk and some other experience with
obscure and esoteric stuff.

I'm getting sick of learning to do the same thing in a new language.