The Slate Programming Language

An anonymous reader writes "I know that we have had an influx of new programming languages of late, but I feel that this one merits special attention. Theoretical computer scientists and long-time Squeak and LISP contributors Brian Rice and Lee Salzman have been rapidly developing a language called Slate. It draws on the various strengths of the Self, Smalltalk, and LISP languages. To quote from the website: 'Slate is a prototype-based object-oriented programming language based on Self, CLOS, and Smalltalk. Slate syntax is intended to be as familiar as possible to a Smalltalker, rather than engaging in divergent experiments in that respect.' The beta release is currently being written in Common LISP."

Comments

Prototyping OO is not a great paradigm

[Viol8]

Its fine for small scripts , rubbish for large programs as object and inheritance management becomes a minefield. I'm sure this language will
provide hours of mental masturbation in various academic ivory towers but for those of us who have to code in the real world its not going to rock it.

Re:Ah, great, Smalltalk

[badmammajamma]

lol...all smalltalkers are elitist. I have yet to meet one that doesn't think he's god's gift to OOA&D (especially when talking to people using other languages, like Java).