On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:42:03 +0000, Tim Tyler wrote: > I very much favour the smalltalk-inspired idea of keeping the actual > language as small as is reasonably possible. > > I wonder if there are any promising new kids on the dynamic > scripting-language block that I haven't heard about yet - i.e. things not > on: > > http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Scripting/Object-Oriented/ > http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Object-Oriented/Prototype-based/
Personally, I'm holding off on any more exploration of dynamic languages until they all settle on a single VM that they all can run on. The problem that a new language faces is that it will have a sucky library, and I use things like Tk or other graphical toolkits for *everything*. Once you can write a new language and still pull in the entire Python library (and, ideally, the entire Ruby, Perl, and who knows what else library), then I think it will be more interesting for me to search out other languages. My next language to learn will probably be C#. (On Mono, though.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list