Ioke Tries To Combine the Best of Lisp and Ruby

synodinos writes "Ola Bini, a core JRuby developer and author of the book Practical JRuby on Rails Projects, has been developing a new language for the JVM called Ioke. This strongly typed, extremely dynamic, prototype-based, object-oriented language aims to give developers the same kind of power they get with Lisp and Ruby, combined with a nice, small, regular syntax."

Comments

Re:What, joke?

[RuBLed]

Hey guys, I know that using close to unknown languages would help in times of war, like the use of Navajo.
But come'on, hawaiian? Can we just get along.. otoh, it would be cool to start all my programs with the word "aloha"

Re:Try harder on the naming front...

[stjobe]

I think it should be pronounced "joke", which seems to fit...

Re:Try Io

[BountyX]

You must be a delusional bastard. I can tell because youâ(TM)re using the word "lord" in a manner that suggests you believe in it. Bytecode is the instruction set used for Java's virtual machine, jackass. No, bytecode is not used for compiled code. Wrong again. When java is run on a machine it gets translated into bytecode by the jvm then the jvm executes that instruction set. In fact, the JVM is considered a "processor architecture" on which Java bytecode (a compiled Java program) is executed. Your point is well taken and in the end is one correct factor of the overall equation; my point was that people continue to use C/C++ for ultimate power and flexibility. Such power and flexibility cannot be leveraged with limitations imposed by the JVM and furthermore, javaâ(TM)s bytecode (such as advanced memory managment). Why the hell do you think Sun sells Java based processors? Also, language choice does make a big difference for preformance critical applications on non-embedded devices. Go look at PHP vs Python benchmarks for hashing and then tell me it dosn't matter when you need a server side script to hash 3k video files.

The best of LISP?

[Bootarn]

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