Newton

Named for Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

Rapin et al, Swiss Federal Inst Tech, Lausanne 1981

Newton is a general purpose expression language, syntactically ALGOL-like, with object-oriented and functional features and a rich set of primitives for concurrency. It has been used for undergraduate teaching at Lausanne (EPFL).

"Procedural Objects in Newton", Ch. Rapin, SIGPLAN Notices 24(9) (Sep 1989).

"The Newton Language", Ch. Rapin et al, SIGPLAN Notices 16(8):31-40 (Aug 1981).

"Programming in Newton", Wuetrich and Menu, EPFL 1982.

Newton 2.6

For VAX/VMS.

Newton 1.2

For DEC-Alpha/OSF-1.