WideFinder in Io: it’s now too late

A Swede made the first WideFinder implementation in Io: Ragnar Dahlén. The results were informative, but not performant. Io can not compete just there, just yet. Me and Thorbiörn were conspiring last week to implement WideFinder, but we got waylaid by… distractions. The distractions were speculative, lazy, and touched on different OCamls. Like this: “We …

Look, Ma! (linked Io glimpse)

The Io blog points to a ramshackle example Io thing authored by me and quag. If you’ve heard about Io, and wonder what it looks like, this is a… very small example. (I didn’t know they’d gone and published it, and it turned up in my newsreader. Now I have to improve it. Gosh, the …

Io on OS X: Get a fixed libsgml

libsgml.zip is the libsgml library with a slightly modified build sequence, to accomodate the Mac OS X need for .dylib instead of .so files. I learnt a bit on making Makefile.in and configure.in do my bidding, but don’t do this with your spare time. Try and download this file instead. get the fixed libsgml, unpack …

Io gets Ruby-style string interpolation

This is nice for people who come to Io from Ruby: Io, the language, now has… a C implementation of interpolate (by trevor with help from jer) Just to give people a heads-up on this point. There is a slight change in behaviour. Instead of using #io{…} to interpolate your code, you now use #{…}. …

More Io Learning

[Io](http://www.iolanguage.com/)’s very self-documenting, at least when it comes to “what parameters does this and that take?” This is a little walk-through that gets you up and running in the interpreter. Get a binary from the downlaods page, and then come back here. There is a docs slot — with some text about what the method …