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> Anyone here tried Io language?
>
> http://www.iolanguage.com/about/
>
> What do you guys think of it?
Someone ported my ray tracer to IO, so I like it:
http://www.mike-austin.com/io/ray.io
;-)
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······@gmail.com wrote:
> Anyone here tried Io language?
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> http://www.iolanguage.com/about/
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> What do you guys think of it?
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What great new thing does Io bring to programming languages that its
inspirations failed to do?
The faq <http://www.iolanguage.com/about/faq/> subjectively measures Io
as the simplest of five other languages, but avoids /objectively
measuring/ its simplicity. The sample code suggests there exists at
least a few keywords, if, for, method.
I also noticed both := and = used for assignment.
After that I was unable to continue looking around. I don't seem able
to get to the website <http://www.iolanguage.com/> any more. Perhaps
the posting here to the newsgroups overwhelmed it?
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What great new thing does Io bring to programming languages that its
inspirations failed to do?<br>
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The faq <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.iolanguage.com/about/faq/"><http://www.iolanguage.com/about/faq/></a> subjectively
measures Io as the simplest of five other languages, but avoids
/objectively measuring/ its simplicity. The sample code suggests there
exists at least a few keywords, if, for, method.<br>
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I also noticed both := and = used for assignment.<br>
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After that I was unable to continue looking around. I don't seem able
to get to the website <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.iolanguage.com/"><http://www.iolanguage.com/></a> any more.
Perhaps the posting here to the newsgroups overwhelmed it?<br>
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On 11 Maj, 01:56, ······@gmail.com wrote:
> Anyone here tried Io language?
>
> http://www.iolanguage.com/about/
>
> What do you guys think of it?
I prefer prototype-based to class-based, but to be honest I really
don't find the syntax easy.
I.e. how do I express the difference between (what in Scheme would be
expressed as):
foo,
vs
(foo)
vs
(lambda () foo)
in io?
What's the difference between writeline "string"
and "string".writeline and so on? I guess Io could be a great
language, but I love sexps.
Last I tried, I couldn't get some of the example code to work, either.