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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. 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.