Re: [The Year In Scripting Languages Lua/Perl/Python/Ruby/Tcl2002]

[Scott McKay <address@hidden>]

At 12:58 PM -0500 1/15/03, Kevin Kelleher wrote:
>Just to note that this review misses Pike (http://pike.ida.liu.se/about/).

Don't tell me someone else is implementing another dialect of Lisp again?

;-)

>Some excerpts from the cited page:
>
>"Pike supports most programming paradigms, including (but not limited to)
>object orientation, functional programming, aspect orientation and
>imperative programming...
>
>"Most of the time critical parts of Pike are heavily optimized; Pike is
>really, really fast and uses efficient, carefully handcrafted algorithms
>and data types...
>
>"While already being a great language, Pike is actively developed and
>backed by both an active Pike community and the computer science...
>research community."
>
>--
>Kevin Kelleher <kkell@znet.com>