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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.. but. by PFAK · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is there any feasible use for this? Or is it just another language. LISP is over-rated imho. XML is just fine, it looks like XML. It has a number of dependencies such as Java, etc. Which would make it harder to install for the average user.

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    Free means no restrictions, ironic the FSF's GPL forces restrictions, isn't it? What's your definition of free?