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by kind permission of
The Natural History Museum,
London
Sir Charles Darwin (1809-1882) founded the theory about evolution of species by mutation and natural selection. We hope our project will contribute to the evolution of two seemingly disparate "species" of object-oriented languages to one that will be better adapted to the "struggle for survival" in computer industry. Time will show whether Darwin´s rule about the "survival of the fittest" will work against or in favor of our model :-)
Latest News
May 13, 2003: Lava II - Release Alpha
0.21 now available for download.
October
9, 2002: Added material from the presentation of Lava at ECOOP 2002
to the papers page (poster, poster abstract,
demo abstract, demo slides).
October
4, 2002: Lava II - Release Alpha 0.20
available for download. Changes: added support for inner classes and
significantly
improved stability. More ...
Darwin in a Nutshell
The Darwin project integrates dynamic object-based inheritance (also known as delegation) into traditional object oriented languages. It provides:
- for theoreticians
- the Darwin Model, which reconciles delegation with class-based inheritance and static typing
- for language designers
- the Lava language, an extension of Java by delegation and consultation
- for programmers
- the Lava compiler, a freely available, platform independent implementation of Lava
- for language implementors
- implementation techniques for delegation on C++ and Java-style architectures
- for computational theologists
- the promise to complete the imperative calculus of typed object-based delegation started in the last millenium... :-)