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by Huw Collingbourne.
Original Post: The Sapphire Programming Language - The Fundamentals
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In the few days since we announced the Sapphire Language project there has been quite a bit of discussion and speculation on various Internet forums. People have been wondering what Sapphire is exactly - is it a ‘type of Ruby', or is it more like Python? Is it strongly typed, will it be exclusively for .NET and so on..? Here I'll try to give a few more details which, I hope, will clear up a few misconceptions... What is Sapphire? Sapphire is a dynamic, object oriented (...)