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diff --git a/development/io/slack-desc b/development/io/slack-desc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..1ae0c48f27cb4 --- /dev/null +++ b/development/io/slack-desc @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: +# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line +# up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' +# on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must +# make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also +# customary to leave one space after the ':'. + + |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| +io: io (small, prototype-based programming language) +io: +io: Inspired by Smalltalk (values are objects, messages are dynamic), +io: Self (prototype-based), NewtonScript (differential inheritance), +io: Act1 (actors and futures for concurrency), LISP (code is a runtime +io: inspectable/modifiable tree) and Lua (small, embeddable). +io: +io: Features: small vm (~10K semicolons), multi-state (multiple VMs run +io: in the same process), incremental collector, weak links, actor-based +io: concurrency, C99 implementation, 64bit clean exceptions, embeddable. +io: |