Cobra is a discontinued general-purpose, object-oriented programming language. Cobra is designed by Charles Esterbrook, and runs on the Microsoft .NET and Mono platforms. It is strongly influenced by Python, C#, Eiffel, Objective-C, and other programming languages. It supports both static and dynamic typing. It has support for unit tests and contracts. It has lambda expressions, closures, list comprehensions, and generators.

Cobra is an open-source project; it was released under the MIT License on February 29, 2008.

Features

Object-oriented

Namespaces Classes, interfaces, structs, extensions, enumerations Methods, properties, indexers Mixins, extension methods Generics, attributes

Quality control

Contracts, assertions Unit tests, docstrings Compile-time nil-tracking

Expressiveness

Static and dynamic binding List, dictionary, and set literals in and implies operator for expressions Slicing Interpolated strings Compile-time type inference Lambdas and closures

General productivity

Exception handling Postmortem exception report Garbage collection

Scripting conveniences

Clean syntax Dynamic binding One-step run Shebang line (#!)

Miscellaneous

Documentation tool (cobra -doc) Syntax highlighting tool (cobra -highlight)

Examples

The following examples can be run from a file using cobra <filename>.

Hello World

A simple class

External links

  • by Charles Esterbrook