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Io is a small, prototype-based programming language. The ideas in Io are mostly inspired by Smalltalk (all values are objects), Self (prototype-based), NewtonScript (differential inheritance), Act1 (actors and futures for concurrency), LISP (code is a runtime inspectable/modifiable tree) and Lua (small, embeddable).
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Here's the proggit discussion of io:
http://reddit.com/r/programming/info/64mgk/comments
The url looks like "LOL language"
I've been doing a couple side projects in Io over the last few months. It really is a beautiful language. Honestly, it reminds me of what would be the love child of Lisp and Ecmascript.
What really struck me was when I realized that I could get it to do Ruby style hash and array literals, from completely within the language. Really cool stuff.
Also, doing a Markaby clone was remarkably (hah) easy.
Oh, and the Regex library is rather nice.
What really struck me was when I realized that I could get it to do Ruby style hash and array literals, from completely within the language. Really cool stuff.
Also, doing a Markaby clone was remarkably (hah) easy.
Oh, and the Regex library is rather nice.
Wow, and I thought Ruby was slow!
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?t...
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?t...
The optimizations are turned off until 1.0 is released.
Does anyone know how to compile this on Ubuntu?
I Googled and found two guides, but neither of them worked. I'll post the particular compiler error I got when I get home.
I Googled and found two guides, but neither of them worked. I'll post the particular compiler error I got when I get home.
I'm having issues installing in cygwin too. Hundreds of errors like: "source/IoBlock.c:58: error: parse error before ')' token"
Yes, I get those errors too.
The first error that shows up after executing 'make' is:
The first error that shows up after executing 'make' is:
In file included from source/simd_cph/include/simd_cp_x86.h:47,
from source/simd_cph/include/simd_cp.h:115,
from source/UArray_math.c:13:
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/include/xmmintrin.h:34:3: error: #error "SSE instruction set not enabled"
Alright, I asked for help in #io, and it looks like there was some known problem with SIMD due to a recent patch.
In order to fix it for now, go to libs/basekit/source/UArray_math.c, and comment out the line:
In order to fix it for now, go to libs/basekit/source/UArray_math.c, and comment out the line:
#define IO_USE_SIMD 1
I suggest that you use the MSVS compiler, but the cygwin build environment (make sure to set the LIB and INCLUDE env variables). Then:
SYS=Windows make
That is the easiest way in Windows (for now).
SYS=Windows make
That is the easiest way in Windows (for now).