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Newspeak is a programming language and platform in the tradition of Smalltalk and Self being developed by a team led by Gilad Bracha. The platform includes an IDE a GUI library and standard libraries. Starting in 2006 Cadence Design Systems funded its development and employed the main contributors but ceased funding in January 2009.Newspeak is a class based language. Classes may be nested as in BETA. This is one of the key differences between Newspeak and Smalltalk.