Noop was a project by Google engineers Alex Eagle and Christian Gruber aiming to develop a new programming language that attempted to blend the best features of 'old' and 'new' languages and best practices. Launched January 1, 2009; shut down December 31, 2011 — it lived 2 years. One of 26 Google products killed in 2011. Noop was a project by Google engineers Alex Eagle and Christian Gruber aiming to develop a new programming language. Noop attempted to blend the best features of "old" and "new" languages, while syntactically encouraging well accepted programming best-practices. Noop was initially targeted to run on the Java Virtual Machine. Wiki link Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).