ParaSail

ParaSail is a modern, high-level, general-purpose programming language with automatic memory management and garbage collection. It is designed to be easy to learn, and its syntax is similar to that of Pascal. ParaSail programs are compiled to bytecode, which can be run on any platform that has a ParaSail virtual machine. ParaSail was designed by a team at Stanford University led by Professor David Ungar. The language was inspired by Pascal, Smalltalk, and Self. It is named after the parasail, a type of kite. ParaSail is a statically typed, object-oriented language. It has a simple, powerful type system with inheritance and parametric polymorphism. ParaSail programs are compiled to bytecode, which can be run on any platform that has a ParaSail virtual machine. ParaSail has a simple, powerful object model. Every value is an object, and every object has a type. Types are first-class values, and can be passed as arguments and returned from functions. ParaSail also has a rich set of built-in types, including integers, floating-point numbers, strings, arrays, and records. ParaSail has a sophisticated garbage collector that reclaims memory for unused objects. ParaSail also has a unique approach to concurrency, based on the idea of message passing. ParaSail programs can be run on a single processor or on a cluster of processors. ParaSail is an open source project, released under the MIT License.