How would you like to program like this? You can with Fortress, a new general-purpose statically typed language being developed by Guy Steele's Programming Language Research Group at Sun. Fortress ...

Human language is based on syntax, a complex set of rules about how words can be combined. In theory, the emergence of syntactic communication might have been a comparatively straightforward process.

Human communication is powered by rules for combining words to generate novel meanings. Such syntactical rules have long been assumed to be unique humans. A new study, published in Nature ...