The Heron programming language is an imperative programming multi-paradigm programming language developed by Christopher Diggins, a Canada programmer and writer, and first released into the public domain in 2003.

Heron is influenced by the C plus plus, Java programming language and Pascal programming language programming languages. It has built-in support for object-oriented programming, generic programming, metaprogramming (programming), aspect-oriented programming and design by contract techniques. The Heron language design goals include improving reusability of software and reduction of possibility of programmer error. Heron performance is tuned towards heavily Polymorphism (computer science) object-oriented designs.

=Hello World=

Here is the canonical Hello world program, used commonly to give a brief glimpse at a language s syntax.

program HelloWorld; functions { _main() { print_string( Hello, World! ); } } end

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