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Prototype-based programming

Hung Jung Lu hungjunglu at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 11 13:11:24 EST 2003 
Bruno Desthuilliers <bdesth.nospam at removeme.free.fr> wrote in message news:<3fd7bf36$0$28702$626a54ce at news.free.fr>...
> 
> You may want to have a look at Io
> http://www.iolanguage.com/
> 

Thanks. That was a good dose of adrenaline shot. :)

It's amazing to see how people are converging. It's also refreshing to
see some brains out there. I am over 1 year late in knowing about the
existence of Io (it came out last year) and over 2 years late in
hitting upon some concepts. But that's all right. Better catch up late
than never. :)

When I saw that Io was prototype-based, I told myself: "OK, smart".
When I saw statements were message-based, I told myself: "OK, more
than smart". When I saw that it was designed with full awareness of
Python and Ruby, I told myself: "OK, very smart". When I saw that it
has codeblocks ("block" in Io syntax) and weaklinks, I told myself:
"OK, really smart". When I saw that it can print the source code of a
block, I told myself: "OK, extremely smart". :)

Of course, all the fundamentals have been out there before. But it is
refreshing to see people heading in the right direction.

regards,

Hung Jung
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