John Cowan wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Ola Bini <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ioke 0 released >> --------------- >> >> Ioke is a dynamic language targeted at the Java Virtual Machine. It's >> been designed from scratch to be a highly flexible general purpose >> language. It is a prototype-based programming language that is inspired >> by Io, Smalltalk, Lisp and Ruby. >> >> >> Homepage: http://ioke.org >> Download: http://ioke.org/download.html >> Programming guide: http://ioke.org/guide.html >> > > According to this, the current implementation is called "ikJVM". I > suggest that this is too close to IKVM (the JVM implementation on the > CLR) and should be changed if at all possible. > > > Good point. I will definitely consider it; the implementation name doesn't matter that much right now.
Cheers >> Ioke 0 is the first release of Ioke, and as such is not production >> ready. I would appreciate if people tried it out and reported bugs, >> thoughts and ideas. >> >> Features: >> - Strong, dynamic typing >> - Prototype based object orientation >> - Homoiconic language >> - Simple syntax >> - Powerful macro facilities >> - Condition system >> - Developed using TDD >> - Documentation system that combines documentation with specs >> - Wedded to the JVM >> >> >> Ola Bini - [email protected] >> >> -- >> Ola Bini (http://olabini.com) >> JRuby Core Developer >> Developer, ThoughtWorks Studios (http://studios.thoughtworks.com) >> Practical JRuby on Rails (http://apress.com/book/view/9781590598818) >> >> "Yields falsehood when quined" yields falsehood when quined. >> >> >> >> > > > > -- Ola Bini (http://olabini.com) JRuby Core Developer Developer, ThoughtWorks Studios (http://studios.thoughtworks.com) Practical JRuby on Rails (http://apress.com/book/view/9781590598818) "Yields falsehood when quined" yields falsehood when quined. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
