Re: [Delight-general] New Github fork
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From: Thomas L. <ta...@gm...> - 2013-12-29 19:09:29
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On 29 December 2013 16:24, Peter Massey-Plantinga <pla...@gm...> wrote: > I'm possibly interested in taking over or restarting activity on this > programming language. I love Python's syntax and D's features. I'll probably > make a github fork. It looks like the project hasn't been updated for a > while, so I'll probably start over. I just wanted to make sure that there > were no objections to me using the "Delight" name for a completely new > language based on the same principles. Sure, no problem. Starting over is probably a good plan. There were 3 main features of Delight: - Python-like syntax - Safer (but still not perfect) handling of nulls - Object-capabilities security model (though I didn't know this at the time) Are you planning on keeping all of them, or just the syntax? -- Dr Thomas Leonard http://0install.net/ GPG: 9242 9807 C985 3C07 44A6 8B9A AE07 8280 59A5 3CC1 GPG: DA98 25AE CAD0 8975 7CDA BD8E 0713 3F96 CA74 D8BA |