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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."

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  1. Pity about the name by Eunuchswear · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like a korean car.

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    1. Re:Pity about the name by Earle+Martin · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe it's a cunning anagram of "hot porn".

  2. Re:Pre Alpha Release? by seaswahoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, it would be newsworthy if it were a pre-alpha release of Duke Nukem Forever.

  3. Re:Pre Alpha Release? by Frymaster · · Score: 5, Funny
    A pre alpha release really isn't newsworthy. Is this some one's pet project?

    this language doesn't just use prototypes... it is one.

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  4. Re:How can they... by O2n · · Score: 5, Funny

    call it "Industrial-Strength" if it's "pre-alpha?"
    Microsoft gets away with this every time....

  5. p fixation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's with all these languages that start with 'p'? perl, python, php, not to mention good old pascal, and now prothon. Is there a joke here that I'm missing?

  6. Re:Maybe they should write a new webserver by kyjello · · Score: 5, Funny

    They would if it wasn't easier to do in python.

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  7. Re:YANISL: Just What We Needed by cratermoon · · Score: 5, Funny

    A new language is here! A new language is here! I needed something to go between "Perl" and "Python" in my alphabetical index of languages.