Re ANN: A new scripting language Tao 0.9.0 beta released!

Christopher Browne (cbbrowne@ca.afilias.info) wrote:

> From what I can see, most of the interesting features of Icon are left
> out, such as generators, continuations, directed goal search, and
> such.

> If your language leaves out all of the sorts of features that would
> represent the reasons why one might continue to use a scripting
> language as "obscure" as Icon, why would you imagine that it would be
> of any interest to Icon users?

There is generator in Tao, but I didn't intend it to be main feature
of this language, so I didn't pay much attention in the implementation
of it and didn't mention it in the announcement.

SO FAR the main features I intended to have in Tao are about text
processing, numeric computation and extensiblity, multi-threading
will come next, then the others will come into my consideration.
So it is and will be quite different from Icon. If Icon users only like
to use Icon kind language, I admit it's a mistake to post an announcement
in Icon group.