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Prothon - A New Prototype-based Language

Posted by michael on from the amateurthon-coming-next-week dept.

Ben Collins writes "Prothon is a new industrial-strength, interpreted, prototype-based, object-oriented language that gets rid of classes altogether in the way that the Self language does. It uses the sensible, practical syntax and add-on C module scheme from Python. This major prototype improvement over Python plus many other general improvements make for a clean new revolutionary breakthrough in language development. Prothon is simple to use and yet offers the combined power of Python and Self. Check out the first public pre-alpha release at prothon.org."

3 of 630 comments (clear)

  1. No semicolon to end statements? by xv4n · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What!? no semicolon to end statements? That's so BASIC.

  2. Re:Not 'instrustrial strength' by cnf · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I do not know if the following is applicable, as their site is down, but as it is based on python? ..

    I refuse to even consider ANY language that is whitespace sensitive

  3. Syntax by ChicagoDave · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    Any language that uses whitespace or backslashes for line continuation is madness. This 2004 people. Write a damn compiler that can do the thinking, don't make me screw around with formatting to get my program working. Moronic. Stupid.

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