Cobra (programming language)

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Designed by Charles Esterbrook		Developer Cobra Language LLC
Paradigm Multi-paradigm: object-oriented First appeared 2006; 11 years ago (2006) Stable release 0.9.6 / December 23, 2013; 3 years ago (2013-12-23) Typing discipline strong, static, dynamic, inferred

Cobra is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language. Cobra is designed by Charles Esterbrook, and runs on the Microsoft .NET and Mono platforms. It is strongly influenced by Python, C#, Eiffel, Objective-C, and other programming languages. It supports both static and dynamic typing. It has support for unit tests and contracts. It has lambda expressions, closures, list comprehensions, and generators.

Cobra is an open-source project; it was released under the MIT License on February 29, 2008.

Updates are posted to the Cobra news forum with progress on features, fixes, documentation and related projects since the last update.

Features

Object-oriented

Namespaces

Classes, interfaces, structs, extensions, enumerations

Methods, properties, indexers

Mixins, extension methods

Generics, attributes

Quality control

Contracts, assertions

Unit tests, docstrings

Compile-time nil-tracking

Expressiveness

Static and dynamic binding

List, dictionary, and set literals

in and implies operator

for expressions

Slicing

Interpolated strings

Compile-time type inference

Lambdas and closures

General productivity

Exception handling

Postmortem exception report

Garbage collection

Scripting conveniences

Clean syntax

Dynamic binding

One-step run

Shebang line (#!)

Miscellaneous

Documentation tool (cobra -doc)

Syntax highlighting tool (cobra -highlight)

Examples

The following examples can be run from a file using cobra <filename>.

References

Cobra (programming language) Wikipedia

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