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Ioke Tries To Combine the Best of Lisp and Ruby

Posted by timothy on from the like-a-sibilant-jewel dept.

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."

3 of 255 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Try Io by Kingrames · · Score: 4, Funny

    Two. hand in your geek badge.

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    If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
  2. Joke? by shoban · · Score: 5, Funny

    My eye sight must be getting bad... I misread this as:

    Joke Tries to Combine the Best of Lisp and Ruby

  3. Re:Outlook negative by Haeleth · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, no, you've got it backwards. Designing a successful language gives you a beard.

    Poor Grace Hopper...