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.
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)
The following examples can be run from a file using cobra .