Objeck 3.0.1.2

The Objeck Programming Language is an open source, free, object-oriented computing language with functional features.

The Objeck Programming Language has ties with C#, Pascal and indirectly Ruby. In this language all data types, expect for higher-order functions, are treated as objects.

The Objeck Programming Language contains all of the basic features of a general-purpose (Turing complete) programming language with an emphasis placed on OOP simplicity.

The programming environment consists of a compiler, virtual machine (with associated garbage collector and JIT compiler) and command-line debugger. The compiler emits binary bytecode that is executed by the runtime system.

The runtime JIT compiler has the ability to translate the bytecode into IA-32 or AMD64 machine code during execution for improved performance.

Here are some key features of "Objeck":

· Native platform support for Windows, Linux and OS X
· Support for object-oriented programming (virtual classes, interfaces, enums, functions and methods)
· Functional support (high-order functions)
· Support for polymorphic methods and functions
· "public" and "private" methods classifications
· Class library support (console, strings, files, threads, sockets, directories, vectors, linked lists, b-trees, etc.)
· Interactive debugger
· Automatic memory management (mark and sweep garbage collection)
· Native runtime JIT support for IA-32 and AMD64 architectures
· Peephole optimizations (short-circuit logic, constant folding, strength reduction, instruction simplification)

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· The addition of more trigonometric functions (medium)
· Fixed a bug related to nested floating point calculations that make method calls (medium)
· A version key is now used to ensure that libraries and binaries are compatible with specific versions of the tool chain
· Patched the debugger such that it looks for the required magic number in the correct place in order to properly load debug executables
· Fixed a few bugs related to calling dynamic methods that are defined in library files.