On 15 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yeah, C is too laboursome to actually write anything even the size of Ion > in... but there aren't to many options. I'm not sure something like Ion > is best written in a purely functional language (although it would be an > interesting experiment), but there aren't any really nice (natively > compiled) strongly and statically-typed typed imperative languages.
You could consider Perl. I'm decent at it, and it seems to me it can do everything Ion needs. If you dislike Perl that's another story, but if you provide a list of items Ion needs in a language I'll be glad to comment on each one. Ted
