OO Hello World - Gosu

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The Hello World version of the program in Gosu!

A new OO programming language targeting the JVM with a Java-like syntax and compatible with java code. This looks like a promising language that deserves to be in the list of the ~20 languages I'm writing on here.

So, let's see how it looks like and how it compares to the other langs in a minimal OO program :D 


By the way, you can see my previous post here: http://carlosqt.blogspot.com/2010/06/oo-hello-world.html
where I give some details on WHY these "OO Hello World series" samples. 

Version 1 (Minimal):

The minimum you need to type to get your program compiled and running.

class Greet {
    var _name: String
    construct(name: String) {
        _name = name.capitalize()  
    }
    function salute() {
        print("Hello ${_name}!")
    }
}

// Greet Program
var g = new Greet("world")
g.salute()

Version 2 (Verbose):

Explicitly adding instructions and keywords that are optional to the compiler.

//classpath "."
//package greetprogram
uses java.util.*

public class Greet {
    private var _name: String
    public construct(name: String) {
        this._name = name.capitalize()  
    }
    public function salute() {
        print("Hello ${this._name}!")
    }
}

// Greet Program
var g = new Greet("world")
g.salute()

The Program Output:

Gosu Info:

“Gosu is an imperative statically-typed object-oriented programming language that is designed to be expressive, easy-to-read, and reasonably fast. Gosu supports several resource types” Taken from: (http://gosu-lang.org/intro.shtml)

Appeared:	2010
Current Version:	0.7.0  (latest version in "Languages" page)
Developed by:	Guidewire Software
Creator:
Influenced by:	Java (James Gosling)
Predecessor Language
Predecessor Appeared
Predecessor Creator
Runtime Target:	JVM
Latest Framework Target:	JDK 6
Mono Target:	No
Allows Unmanaged Code:	No
Source Code Extension:	“.gsp”
Keywords:	53
Case Sensitive:	Yes
Free Version Available:	Yes
Open Source:	Yes
Standard:
Latest IDE Support:	Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ http://gosu-lang.org/eclipse.shtml  IntelliJ IDEA http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/index.html http://gosu-lang.org/editors.shtml
Language Reference:	http://gosu-lang.org/doc/index.html
Extra Info:	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosu_(programming_language)