From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@...>
Date: 2005-04-27T23:54:31+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: A new scripting language Tao 0.9.0 beta released!

fu.limin.tao@gmail.com (Fu Limin) writes:
> Dear all,
>
> I am glad to announce in this forum that the lastest version of a new
> scripting language Tao has come
> out. Welcome to try it out!
>
> =======================
> Here are some details:
> =======================
>
> ==========
> Summary:
> ==========
> Tao is an object-oriented scripting language with dynamic-typing
> variables supporting complex data structures. It has powerful text
> processing ability such as string regular expression matching. It
> provides built-in numerical data types such as complex number and
> multi-dimensional numeric array, and their corresponding operations
> and computations are very convenient in Tao. It can be easily extended
> with C++, through a simple and transparent interface.

From what I can see, most of the interesting features of Icon are left
out, such as generators, continuations, directed goal search, and
such.

If your language leaves out all of the sorts of features that would
represent the reasons why one might continue to use a scripting
language as "obscure" as Icon, why would you imagine that it would be
of any interest to Icon users?
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