Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-07 Thread Limin Fu
I don't think there is confusion here, because the Microsoft database access method DAO is not a programming language. Whatever it is, the name does tend to lend confusion with the older Microsoft database access method DAO (which was superceded by ADO). -- Wulfraed

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-07 Thread MRAB
Limin Fu wrote: Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: Whatever it is, the name does tend to lend confusion with the older Microsoft database access method DAO (which was superceded by ADO). I don't think there is confusion here, because the Microsoft database access method DAO is not a programming

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-07 Thread Limin Fu
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:14 PM, MRAB goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote: Limin Fu wrote: Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: Whatever it is, the name does tend to lend confusion with the older Microsoft database access method DAO (which was superceded by ADO). I don't think there is confusion here,

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-07 Thread Ben Finney
Daniel Fetchinson fetchin...@googlemail.com writes: Why this hostility? The guy has worked on an interesting piece of software and tries to promote it to people who are most probably interested in programming languages. What's wrong with that? Because there's no particular reason for it

ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Limin Fu
Hi, This is to announce the first official release of Dao. Dao is a simple yet powerful object-oriented programming language with many advanced features including, soft (or optional) typing, BNF-like macro system, regular expression, multi-dimensional numeric array, closure, coroutine,

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread skip
Limin This is to announce the first official release of Dao. What's the connection to Python? -- Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Tim Greer
Limin Fu wrote: Hi, This is to announce the first official release of Dao. Dao is a simple yet powerful object-oriented programming language So, you pimp your language in news groups for other languages? I see your off topic post in 3 language groups I frequent, that's not the way to get

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread andrew cooke
i agree it's not clear how this is related to python (although i can see the influence), but it does look like a nice language. one thing i was surprised to find missing was that the discussion of types doesn't include classes (the discussion of macros doesn't include types, but that is more

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Limin Fu
Honest to say, there is no solid connection between Dao and Python. It's just that I had received some good suggestions and comments from these groups when I made a few previous announcements in these groups. So I guessed somebody might be interested in Dao, and thought it might be a good idea to

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Tim Greer
Limin Fu wrote: To Tim Greer and others: Some people may think this kind of announcement are off topic in a group for another language. This is not exactly true. This is still about programming, there are so many programmers out there, who knows if there would be somebody interested in a

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Limin Fu
i agree it's not clear how this is related to python (although i can see the influence), but it does look like a nice language. thanks. one thing i was surprised to find missing was that the discussion of types doesn't include classes (the discussion of macros doesn't include Actually

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
This is to announce the first official release of Dao. Dao is a simple yet powerful object-oriented programming language So, you pimp your language in news groups for other languages? I see your off topic post in 3 language groups I frequent, that's not the way to get interest in your

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Limin Fu
i agree it's not clear how this is related to python (although i can see the influence), but it does look like a nice language. thanks. one thing i was surprised to find missing was that the discussion of types doesn't include classes (the discussion of macros doesn't include types,

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread skip
Limin Honest to say, there is no solid connection between Dao and Limin Python. It's just that I had received some good suggestions and Limin comments from these groups when I made a few previous Limin announcements in these groups. So I guessed somebody might be Limin

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Terry Reedy
Daniel Fetchinson wrote: This is to announce the first official release of Dao. Dao is a simple yet powerful object-oriented programming language So, you pimp your language in news groups for other languages? I see your off topic post in 3 language groups I frequent, that's not the way to get

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Ben Finney
Daniel Fetchinson fetchin...@googlemail.com writes: Why this hostility? The guy has worked on an interesting piece of software and tries to promote it to people who are most probably interested in programming languages. What's wrong with that? Because there's no particular reason for it to be

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
This is to announce the first official release of Dao. Dao is a simple yet powerful object-oriented programming language So, you pimp your language in news groups for other languages? I see your off topic post in 3 language groups I frequent, that's not the way to get interest in your

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Why this hostility? The guy has worked on an interesting piece of software and tries to promote it to people who are most probably interested in programming languages. What's wrong with that? Because there's no particular reason for it to be in a Python-specific forum. Yes there is, for