The last two weeks I’ve been furiously coding away to be able to do this. And I’m finally at the goal. I am very happy to announce that the first release of Ioke for the CLR is finished. It runs on both Mono and .NET.

Ioke is a language that is designed to be as expressive as possible. It is a dynamic language targeted at several virtual machines. It’s been designed from scratch to be a highly flexible general purpose language. It is a prototype-based programming language that is inspired by Io, Smalltalk, Lisp and Ruby.

Homepage: http://ioke.org
Download: http://ioke.org/download.html
Programming guide: http://ioke.org/wiki/index.php/Guide
Wiki: http://ioke.org/wiki

Ioke E ikc is the first release of the ikc Ioke machine. The ikc machine is implemented in C# and F# and run’s on Mono and .NET. It includes all the features of Ioke E ikj, except for Java integration. Integration with .NET types will come in another release.

Features:

• Expressiveness first
• Strong, dynamic typing
• Prototype based object orientation
• Homoiconic language
• Simple syntax
• Powerful macro facilities
• Condition system
• Aspects
• Runs on both the JVM and the CLR
• Developed using TDD
• Documentation system that combines documentation with specs

There are several interesting pieces in ikc. Among them I can mention a new regular expression engine (called NRegex), a port of many parts of gnu.math, providing arbitrary precision math, and also an implementation of BigDecimal in C#.

By Ola Bini | In: ioke | tags: .net, c#, f#, ikc, ioke, release. | #