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 expressionss, 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

• Classeses, interfaces, structs, extensions, enumerations

• Methodss, properties, indexers

• Mixins, extension methods

• Generics, attributes

Quality control:

• Contracts, assertionss

• Unit testss, 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!" programHello World

A simple class

References

External links

• The Cobra blog by Charles Esterbrook

• Cobra News Index