Aikido Programming Language

Aikido is a programming language that can be used for rapid scripting, prototyping and general programming tasks. It was developed in Sun Microsystems Laboratories by David Allison and released as open source in September 2003. It is a dynamically typed, object-oriented language with built-in multithreading. In some respects it is similar in functionality to Python, Perl, JavaScript and Java. Syntactically it is very similar to C++ and Java. Full documentation for the Aikido language is available in the Programmers reference manual The name Aikido refers to the Japanese martial art of the same name and was chosen because the language, like the martial art is derived from many other parts, taking the most desirable aspects of each. The...