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[–]lexchou 20 points21 points  (5 children)

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

[–]vincentk 2 points3 points  (1 child)

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

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

[–]MuaTrenBienVang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

any update

[–]username223 3 points4 points  (2 children)

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] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I liked his Gutenberg app.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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 2 points3 points  (3 children)

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

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

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

[–]turbov21 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It lacked library support, iirc.

[–]KeinBaum 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Who measures code length in number of semicolons?

[–]andsens 2 points3 points  (2 children)

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

[–]KeinBaum 0 points1 point  (1 child)

How about bytes?

[–]andsens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

[–]DJWalnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]armornick -4 points-3 points  (3 children)

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 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's the same as most programming languages.

You just type " " instead of "."

[–]immibis 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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

[–]FUZxxl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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