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Pike Scripting Language

Posted by michael on from the big-fast-and-hungry dept.

ulrikp writes "The vikings have done it again! The Swedes at Linköping University (home of the cool Lysator archives) have released a new version of their Pike scripting language. It is similar to C++ and C#, but is apparently more type-safe than either. It is interpreted, and runs on many OS's, including Linux, Solaris, and Windows. Check it out!"

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  1. Check the license! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Before anybody gets too excited, check at the license it's released under. The terms and conditions are obviously designed to limit your freedom. RMS told me he had talked with them, and they refused to be reasonable and assign the copyrights to the FSF. He recommends we use GNU/Perl instead of this unfree language.


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    1. Re:Check the license! by 0x69 · · Score: 1, Troll

      Before anybody gets too excited, check up on this RMS guy. I've talked to him, and he stupidly refuses to assign all his (now blatently UNfree) property and rights to my truly free Stalin Free Society. I recommend that you use only free SFS-owned & -approved languages, not his slaveware.

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      It's easy to make up & spread cool- and credible-sounding stuff. Finding & checking hard facts is hard work.