<s>
Noop	B-Language
(	O
,	O
like	O
no-op	O
)	O
was	O
a	O
project	O
by	O
Google	B-Application
engineers	O
Alex	O
Eagle	O
and	O
Christian	O
Gruber	O
aiming	O
to	O
develop	O
a	O
new	O
programming	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Noop	B-Language
attempted	O
to	O
blend	O
the	O
best	O
features	O
of	O
"	O
old	O
"	O
and	O
"	O
new	O
"	O
languages	O
,	O
while	O
syntactically	O
encouraging	O
well	O
accepted	O
programming	O
best-practices	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Noop	B-Language
was	O
initially	O
targeted	O
to	O
run	O
on	O
the	O
Java	B-Language
Virtual	I-Language
Machine	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Noop	B-Language
progressed	O
past	O
its	O
initial	O
proposals	O
into	O
a	O
limited	O
interpreter	O
,	O
but	O
according	O
to	O
the	O
project	O
owners	O
they	O
no	O
longer	O
intend	O
to	O
pursue	O
the	O
language	O
any	O
further	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Among	O
the	O
reasons	O
cited	O
for	O
discontinuing	O
work	O
on	O
the	O
language	O
was	O
the	O
initial	O
release	O
of	O
Kotlin	B-Language
,	O
which	O
achieves	O
many	O
of	O
the	O
language	O
goals	O
of	O
Noop	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Noop	B-Language
language	O
can	O
be	O
executed	O
as	O
an	O
interpreted	O
language	O
,	O
as	O
a	O
compiled	O
language	O
,	O
or	O
as	O
java	O
code	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Noop	B-Language
language	O
was	O
created	O
by	O
Google	B-Application
.	I-Application
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
presented	O
during	O
the	O
2009	O
edition	O
of	O
the	O
JVM	B-Language
Language	O
Summit	O
held	O
in	O
Santa	O
Clara	O
,	O
California	O
from	O
September	O
16	O
to	O
18	O
,	O
2009	O
.	O
</s>
