Re: Another small and embedable language : Io

[Steve Dekorte <steve@...>]

On Wednesday, April 16, 2003, at 05:53 AM, Vincent Penne wrote:
> This language (from the FAQ) was partially inspired by lua but seems 
> however fundamentaly different. (Io is indeed a moon of Jupiter :) )

Hi Vincent,

I'm the author of Io and yes, I'm a Lua fan. :-) Io's orientation 
towards being small, embeddable and multi-state was heavily influenced 
by Lua. The major difference is that Io is a pure OO language.

> ... I wonder how it compares to lua in term of speed ...

Here's some tests from a while ago:
http://www.iolanguage.com/comparisons/performance.html

Looks like Lua has the speed edge, but Io is competitive. Both appear 
to compare pretty well to Python, Perl and Ruby.

Cheers,
Steve
Io, a small language: http://www.iolanguage.com/