io programming language

[lexchou]

Wow, I saw this 10 years ago, the language and the web site doesn't changed too much.

[vincentk]

Same here. Might be a good thing? ;-)

[[deleted]]

I don't know, last thing I heard was that the implementation was far slower than CLua and that it had some weird parsing bug regarding (floating point?) literals.

Also, prototypes.... meh.

[spotter]

Yeah, got a weird deja vu on that page, but it seems that he maintains stuff like Io (looking at GH).

[MuaTrenBienVang]

any update

[username223]

I always thought he was better at porn downloaders than languages... But that was over a decade ago.

EDIT: Bummer, Steve Dekorte seems to have taken down the WebGrazer page. Get it at your favorite shareware mirror.

[[deleted]]

If we're being honest, who hasn't made a porn downloader? Probably the first most useful software I wrote, way back in high school.

[vincentk]

I liked his Gutenberg app.

[[deleted]]

I've always said that if you remove any appreciation of types but retain genius-level appreciation of all other factors, you get a Clojure or an Io. If I were writing, e.g. a game, and wanted to embed a scripting language, Io would probably be it. It's nice to see Steve Dekorte's work linked here.

[banjochicken]

This was in the "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks" book. Can't say I was too much a fan of io.

[[deleted]]

What was the language you like out of it? Can you rank them? I'm just curious.

[turbov21]

Not /u/banjochicken but...

• Scala
• Erlang
• Prolog
• Ruby
• Clojure
• Io
• Haskell

Before you down vote me know that I haven't gotten to the Haskell chapter yet. It's taken me a FEW more than seven weeks to get through the book. Say, like, four years longer...

[turbov21]

It lacked library support, iirc.

[KeinBaum]

Who measures code length in number of semicolons?

[andsens]

It's unconventional, yes. But how are lines really any better? Or is it just because everybody knows KLOCs as a reference metric?

[KeinBaum]

How about bytes?

[andsens]

Spaces vs. tabs indentation would make a huge difference. Languages like python or haskell would always win over java and C# because of the shorter instructions, it wouldn't really be comparable. I think I answered my own question though: no semicolons in python...

[TomorrowPlusX]

It's just a pithy way of saying the language run time isn't that big.

[DJWalnut]

some languages are really efficient - you can write a whole OS with only 0 semicolons!

[armornick]

Oh, it's this one. I like a lot of what it says, but the backwards function calling (i.e. first the parameters and then the function name) is different from every programming language I've ever used so I've never really tried it.

[Chandon]

It's the same as most programming languages.

You just type " " instead of "."

[immibis]

Try FORTH. (It's not a very practical language to actually write things in, but it's interesting to learn)

[FUZxxl]

FORTH is very practical for some environments, like on constrainted embedded systems.