Wait, seriously? We're getting to the point of submitting decade-old programming languages (that i'd bet 99% of programmers on here are aware of) as news, without even some kind of news related to them!? Cmon, at least write up a short blog post or a tweet or something.
Io language
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Re: Io language
#32What a satisfying language to read. I hooe it gains more traction.
Re: Io language
#33http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750830
I don't get the "link to some long-existing home page with no comment" thing, but that's what voting/flagging is for.
Re: Io language
#34it's down
IIRC, Steve, the designer of the langauge, hosts the site on his home connection.
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#35Definitely not interested in another dynamically typed language, no matter how elegant.
That's a rather ignorant statement to make.
That's a very presumptuous response. I'm very familiar with lisp, scheme, perl, python, php, ruby and javascript. After moving to scala last year I realized that I'm a lot more productive in a good statically typed language than I am in any of those.
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#36Definitely not interested in another dynamically typed language, no matter how elegant.
Io is worth learning just to see what a clean prototype-based language feels like. It'll probably improve your understanding of Javascript.
I was hacking Io at the C level years ago, and I understand prototype inheritance just fine. I'm far more interested in Scala and Haskell, thanks.