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Water, a Newish Web Language Out of MIT

Posted by chrisd on from the from-beneath-you-lisp-devours dept.

jimdesu writes "True to its religion, MIT has reinvented LISP again, this time as a web-programming language called Water.At first blush, it looks rather interesting. It supports hashes, vectors and objects (prototype based) in a manner that makes it look as much like XML as one could possibly conceive. I'm certainly going to play with it. Anyway, the url is at http://www.waterlang.org."

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  1. First Post by Trusty+Penfold · · Score: 3, Funny
    First Post in Water
    thing.<set message="hello world">

    <server.http/>
    1. Re: First Post by Black+Parrot · · Score: 3, Funny


      > thing.<set message="hello world">

      Wouldn't a real OO language require sending a hello message to an object named world ?

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  2. VB by farnsworth · · Score: 1, Funny
    from http://www.waterlang.org/doc/articles/two.html :

    The goal of Water is to be easier to learn than Visual Basic

    I stopped reading right there.



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  3. Interesting combinations of programming languages by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Water + PROLOG = Waterlog
    Water + Java = Kaffe

    Would a very large program written in Water be called Sea? Get it? Sea? C?

    Talk about diving into some Water programming. If you are under a lot of water programming, would you be drowning with work?

    Gator based on Ada and Water = Gatorada

    I'll shut up now.

  4. mod down... by tha_mink · · Score: 1, Funny

    Funny it doesn't look newish.

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  5. Warning! by Cap'n+Canuck · · Score: 3, Funny

    It'll never float.

    You were warned.