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New programming languages

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Ares 2 only speaks Java today, but nothing in its core is Java-specific.

This page is what it would take to examine pupils who answer in a second language.

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The outline below is the intended structure and is not yet written.

Where the language is decided

ProgrammingLanguageConfiguration and how SecurityPolicyDirector.selectSecurityPolicyDirector dispatches on it.

What a language must supply

The director, the name rules, the project scanner, the essential-packages and essential-classes data, and the test-case factory and builder.

What can be reused

The policy model, the reader, the enforcement model and the TestCaseAbstractFactoryAndBuilder contract are language independent and must not be forked.

Precompile and Postcompile obligations

Which of the two modes a new language must support, and what "supported" means for each: the copy and edit configuration for Precompile, the runtime settings channel for Postcompile.

Verification

Which of the four continuous integration (CI) combinations apply, and the positive and negative controls a new language must ship.

Notes

  • A language added to the enum but not wired into every enforcement layer produces a policy that claims a guarantee the code does not deliver.