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Re:Orc - a novel language for distributed and concurrent pro... by alrex021 on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @02:12AM (#1593990)
"Orc in 15 Minutes" tutorial

http://orc.csres.utexas.edu/tutorial.shtml

Edit: btw, Orc is a Haskell EDSL

Edit2: Orc also seems very well documented. Here is the User Manual http://orc.csres.utexas.edu/userguide/html/index.html and a very neat "Try Orc" page http://orc.csres.utexas.edu/tryorc.shtml

Re:Orc - a novel language for distributed and concurrent pro... by stonemetal on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @09:42AM (#1594619)
Looking at the release notes it appears to be another JVM language. Also it appears to be static typing optional.

>>The Orc implementation has been updated to Java 6.The Top type is now interchangeable with java.lang.Object;

Re:Orc - a novel language for distributed and concurrent pro... by please on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @06:51AM (#1594354)
Name collisions with Orc – The Oil Runtime Compiler http://code.entropywave.com/projects/orc/