Re: [Delight-general] New Github fork

[Peter Massey-P. <pla...@gm...>]

On 12/30/2013 03:09 AM, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> 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?
>
>
I had only been planning on keeping the syntax, but I'll do some 
research on how the latest version of D handles nulls and the 
Object-capabilities security model.

Of course if anyone wants to help, Github makes it easy to collaborate. 
Send me a pull request or ask to be a collaborator. My username  is 
pplantinga, so the project can be found at 
http://github.com/pplantinga/delight