Re: Another small and embedable language : Io

[Vincent Penne <ziggy@...>]

Thank you for the informations Steve, and congratulation for this great 
work :)

Steve Dekorte wrote:

> 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/