High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cola is a programming language similar to Java and C# with some higher level features of Perl and Ruby including first-class regular expressions. It can be compiled for the Microsoft .NET CLR or the Parrot virtual machine. Cola is a compiled language with static type checking, but the designer mixed in some of the features more common to scripting languages like Perl and Ruby. According to the author, after years of using Java and C++ for large projects, and Perl for small to medium ones, there seemed to be no language to fill the gap. Cola is less of a new language "design" than a mix of several very powerful languages with the following key principles in mind: Curly braces and semi-colons at the heart - C++, Java and Perl programmers should be comfortable, whitespace has no effect on the semantics.

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