[ANN] Ioke E released
Ola Bini
is a dynamic language targeted at the Java Virtual Machine. It's been
designed from scratch to be a highly flexible general purpose language.
It is a prototype-based programming language that is inspired by Io,
Smalltalk, Lisp and Ruby.
Homepage: http://ioke.org
Download: http://ioke.org/download.html
Programming guide: http://ioke.org/wiki/index.php/Guide
Wiki: http://ioke.org/wiki
Ioke E is the third release of Ioke. It includes many new features from
Ioke S, among them full support for Java integration (including
implementing interfaces and extending classes), many new methods in the
core libraries, IOpt, TextScanner, BlankSlate, better support for regexp
interpolation and escapes in regexps, support for Unicode analysis and
much more.
Ioke E also includes a large amount of bug fixes.
Features:
- Expressiveness first
- Strong, dynamic typing
- Prototype based object orientation
- Homoiconic language
- Simple syntax
- Powerful macro facilities
- Condition system
- Aspects
- Java integration
- Developed using TDD
- Documentation system that combines documentation with specs
- Wedded to the JVM
The many things added in Ioke E could not have been done without the
support of several contributors. I would like to call out and thank:
T W <twel...@gmail.com>
Sam Aaron <sama...@gmail.com>
Carlos Villela <c...@lixo.org>
Brian Guthrie <btgu...@gmail.com>
Martin Elwin <elv...@gmail.com>
Felipe Rodrigues de Almeida <feli...@gmail.com>
Wes Oldenbeuving <nar...@gmail.com>
Martin Dobmeier <martin....@googlemail.com>
Victor Hugo Borja <vic....@gmail.com>
Bragi Ragnarson <br...@ragnarson.com>
Petrik de Heus
Regards
Ola Bini - ola....@gmail.com
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Ola Bini (http://olabini.com)
Ioke creator (http://ioke.org)
JRuby Core Developer (http://jruby.org)
Developer, ThoughtWorks Studios (http://studios.thoughtworks.com)
Practical JRuby on Rails (http://apress.com/book/view/9781590598818)
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