Introduction

Babel-17 is a new multi-paradigm programming language for dynamically-typed, purely functional structured programming. It combines many features like concurrency and optional lazy evaluation into one coherent design. More information about the Babel-17 language is available at www.babel-17.com.
This plugin allows you to edit and run Babel-17 programs. Syntax- and error-highlighting are provided, and you can jump from error locations or exception traces in the output window directly to the location in the source code. This plugin is being actively developed and maintained by the creator of the Babel-17 language and will always fully support the latest and greatest features of Babel-17.

What's new in this version

The new Babel-17 v0.3.2 straightens out a few details of the spec and fixes several bugs. Improvements of v0.3.1 over v0.2.1 were:

• support for lenses
• Java interoperability
• there is a module system now
• you can define your own types, and in tandem with the module system achieve encapsulation and abstraction
• the Netbeans Plugin now supports not only Babel-17 files, but also entire Babel-17 projects
• unit testing is supported by language features
• (automatic) type conversion
• there is a new built-in type real for floating point interval arithmetic
• the way order is dealt with has changed