<s>
Newspeak	B-Language
is	O
a	O
programming	O
language	O
and	O
platform	B-Device
in	O
the	O
tradition	O
of	O
Smalltalk	B-Application
and	O
Self	B-Operating_System
being	O
developed	O
by	O
a	O
team	O
led	O
by	O
Gilad	O
Bracha	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
platform	B-Device
includes	O
an	O
integrated	B-Application
development	I-Application
environment	I-Application
(	O
IDE	O
)	O
,	O
a	O
graphical	B-Application
user	I-Application
interface	I-Application
(	O
GUI	B-Application
)	O
library	B-Library
,	O
and	O
standard	O
libraries	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Newspeak	B-Language
is	O
a	O
class-based	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Classes	O
may	O
be	O
nested	O
,	O
as	O
in	O
BETA	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
is	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
key	O
differences	O
between	O
Newspeak	B-Language
and	O
Smalltalk	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
All	O
names	O
in	O
Newspeak	B-Language
are	O
late-bound	O
,	O
and	O
are	O
interpreted	O
as	O
message	B-Architecture
sends	O
,	O
as	O
in	O
Self	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
Newspeak	B-Language
is	O
distinguished	O
by	O
its	O
unusual	O
approach	O
to	O
modularity	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Module	O
declarations	O
are	O
first	O
class	O
values	O
(	O
i.e.	O
,	O
they	O
may	O
be	O
stored	O
in	O
variables	O
,	O
passed	O
as	O
parameters	O
,	O
returned	O
from	O
methods	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
)	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
name	O
Newspeak	B-Language
is	O
inspired	O
by	O
the	O
Newspeak	B-Language
language	O
appearing	O
in	O
George	O
Orwell	O
's	O
dystopian	O
novel	O
Nineteen	O
Eighty-Four	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
motive	O
for	O
the	O
name	O
is	O
that	O
Orwell	O
's	O
Newspeak	B-Language
language	O
grew	O
smaller	O
with	O
each	O
revision	O
;	O
Bracha	O
views	O
this	O
as	O
a	O
desirable	O
goal	O
for	O
a	O
programming	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
should	O
not	O
be	O
confused	O
with	O
the	O
safety	O
critical	O
programming	O
language	O
of	O
the	O
same	O
name	O
designed	O
by	O
Ian	O
Currie	O
of	O
RSRE	O
in	O
1984	O
for	O
use	O
with	O
the	O
VIPER	B-General_Concept
microprocessor	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
