Fortress for business

via Sun’s HPC Watercooler

Paul Murphy over at ZDNet comments on Sun’s Fortress language, a vestige of its failed bid to make it into the final phase of DARPA’s HPCS effort. He gives a few thoughts to the notion that with a little tweaking Fortress could be a viable business programming environment.

So what would it take to expand Fortress into business uses? The simple, but cynical, answer is better business programmers – but I think Ajax points to the righter answer: some way of adding high quality screen management, user interface control, and effective text manipulation to the core language.