Ok as I understand the bindings extend the core Virtual machine. So there are three io versoins io, ioServer and ioDesktop now I can not compile all the stuff...
Friedrich Dominicus
frido@...
Jun 8, 2006 9:42 pm
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Hi Friedrich, In the _build.io file, there is a line like, serverBindingNames := list( "AAVector", "Blowfish", "Curses", "Fnmatch", "MD5", "Regex", "SGML",...
Hello List! I tried the Desktop demos coming with the download, but most of them did not work. I read somewhere that they are outdated. So I'd like to know...
Robert Brandner
robert.brandner@...
Jun 9, 2006 8:54 pm
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The applications can be considered in an unworking state. Lots of work has been done in recent weeks by Steve, Quag and most probably others, in getting Flux...
A bigger and related question of mine is what's the roadmap of Io ? I am interesting to use Io on graphic applications through bindings and would like to send...
Hi Yen-Ju, In my mind the roadmap is like this. Io is 4 years old. Most languages, if they become popular, don't become popular until they are 10. That gives...
Yen-Yu, that's exactly what my question was about. I played around with REBOL for a while now, but I prefer Io's concept. What REBOL does have is an easy way...
Robert Brandner
robert.brandner@...
Jun 10, 2006 7:25 am
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Another beginner's querstion: Is there some IDE out there for Io, some specially adopted or preferrable editor, or do you simply use vi or notepad? Thanks for...
Robert Brandner
robert.brandner@...
Jun 12, 2006 6:03 pm
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... I use emacs. I think a special IDE for Iowould be nice (unless it can be integrated into Emacs, which would be quite preferable.) Brian...
... I personally now use textmate, but not too long ago I used vim. ... -- Jeremy Tregunna jtregunna@... "One serious obstacle to the adoption of good...
Since I'm on windows, and am not yet proficient with emacs (I am slowlylearning it as I don't have a lot of free time to practice), I use SciTE. I had a great...
... I mostly use TextWrangler when on OS X, which I think has more useful features than TextMate, including a sane undo. It's also free. For non-Io editing,...
John Nowak
john@...
Jun 13, 2006 12:58 am
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... Recently I am thinking to wrap oniguruma with Io and found this post. Personally I like oniguruma more than pcre because the same two reasons above. I...
... Discontinued. I started on it, then stopped and filed it away for "future playing when the time was right." There's really nothing of any real value though...
Hello, Another interesting question would be: are there any usable pretty-printing tools one could use with io? I tried to create a code-colorer for...
Thank you, all! I'll try them (unfortunately I cannot try the one with the coolest name, because I don't have a Mac). Robert...
Robert Brandner
robert.brandner@...
Jun 13, 2006 6:47 pm
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Hi Pascal, ... For syntax highlighting see Io/projects/SyntaxHighlighters in darcs or the distribution tarball. I propose, 1. We find a way to publize this...
Greetings Io list! I recently discovered Io while looking for a small script language to embed in my Cocoa app. Although I don't even know the language very...
Hi Pauli, ... IoObjects (typically things which start with IoXXXX) are GC'd for you. ... Yes, the GC will free this for you. ... Yes that is enough. The tricky...
... It is simple. =] ... Right; there is the chance that you may step on other states at least as far as you're describing it, I'm not terribly familiar with...
... That should read "now unreferenced" not: "not unreferenced". Sorry for the noise, but I felt like that was an important typo to justify this message. -- ...
... The road map is to keep working on Io (docs and bug fixes mostly) to get it to a 1.0 release. I'd guess we're at about 0.9 at the moment. I'm also going to...
... This sounds good to me. Not having them for 'return' just seems silly to me, as it's such forced special syntax to save two parenthesis. For some time I...
John Nowak
john@...
Jun 14, 2006 12:24 am
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... No. ... -- Jeremy Tregunna jtregunna@... "One serious obstacle to the adoption of good programming languages is the notion that everything has to be...
... Nope! At least not as of two days ago. - John...
John Nowak
john@...
Jun 14, 2006 1:01 am
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... Again, the issue comes down to not being able to specify a precidence rule for an operator. But seeing as you're against operators in general.. meh. Trent...