Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-07 Thread Ben Finney
Daniel Fetchinson writes: > >> Why this hostility? The guy has worked on an interesting piece of > >> software and tries to promote it to people who are most probably > >> interested in programming languages. What's wrong with that? > > > > Because there's no particular reason for it to be in a P

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-07 Thread Limin Fu
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:14 PM, MRAB wrote: > Limin Fu wrote: > > Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > >> Whatever it is, the name does tend to lend confusion with the older >>> Microsoft database access method DAO (which was superceded by ADO). >>> >> >> I don't think there is confusion here, because the

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-07 Thread MRAB
Limin Fu wrote: > Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: Whatever it is, the name does tend to lend confusion with the older Microsoft database access method DAO (which was superceded by ADO). I don't think there is confusion here, because the Microsoft database access method DAO is not a programming langua

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-07 Thread Limin Fu
I don't think there is confusion here, because the Microsoft database access method DAO is not a programming language. > > Whatever it is, the name does tend to lend confusion with the older > Microsoft database access method DAO (which was superceded by ADO). > -- >Wulfraed

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>> Why this hostility? The guy has worked on an interesting piece of >> software and tries to promote it to people who are most probably >> interested in programming languages. What's wrong with that? > > Because there's no particular reason for it to be in a Python-specific > forum. Yes there is,

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
This is to announce the first official release of Dao. Dao is a simple yet powerful object-oriented programming language >>> So, you pimp your language in news groups for other languages? I see >>> your off topic post in 3 language groups I frequent, that's not the way >>> to get in

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Ben Finney
Daniel Fetchinson writes: > Why this hostility? The guy has worked on an interesting piece of > software and tries to promote it to people who are most probably > interested in programming languages. What's wrong with that? Because there's no particular reason for it to be in a Python-specific f

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Terry Reedy
Daniel Fetchinson wrote: This is to announce the first official release of Dao. Dao is a simple yet powerful object-oriented programming language So, you pimp your language in news groups for other languages? I see your off topic post in 3 language groups I frequent, that's not the way to get

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread skip
Limin> Honest to say, there is no solid connection between Dao and Limin> Python. It's just that I had received some good suggestions and Limin> comments from these groups when I made a few previous Limin> announcements in these groups. So I guessed somebody might be Limin> i

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Limin Fu
> i agree it's not clear how this is related to python (although i can see > the influence), but it does look like a nice language. thanks. > > one thing i was surprised to find missing was that the discussion of types > doesn't include classes (the discussion of macros doesn't include types, A

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>> This is to announce the first official release of Dao. >> >> Dao is a simple yet powerful object-oriented programming language > > So, you pimp your language in news groups for other languages? I see > your off topic post in 3 language groups I frequent, that's not the way > to get interest in

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Limin Fu
> > i agree it's not clear how this is related to python (although i can see > the influence), but it does look like a nice language. thanks. > > > one thing i was surprised to find missing was that the discussion of types > doesn't include classes (the discussion of macros doesn't include Ac

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Tim Greer
Limin Fu wrote: > To Tim Greer and others: > > Some people may think this kind of announcement are off topic in a > group for another language. This is not exactly true. This is still > about programming, there are so many programmers out there, who knows > if there would be somebody interested i

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Limin Fu
Honest to say, there is no solid connection between Dao and Python. It's just that I had received some good suggestions and comments from these groups when I made a few previous announcements in these groups. So I guessed somebody might be interested in Dao, and thought it might be a good idea to a

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread andrew cooke
i agree it's not clear how this is related to python (although i can see the influence), but it does look like a nice language. one thing i was surprised to find missing was that the discussion of types doesn't include classes (the discussion of macros doesn't include types, but that is more unde

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Tim Greer
Limin Fu wrote: > Hi, > > This is to announce the first official release of Dao. > > Dao is a simple yet powerful object-oriented programming language So, you pimp your language in news groups for other languages? I see your off topic post in 3 language groups I frequent, that's not the way to

Re: ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread skip
Limin> This is to announce the first official release of Dao. What's the connection to Python? -- Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

2009-03-06 Thread Limin Fu
Hi, This is to announce the first official release of Dao. Dao is a simple yet powerful object-oriented programming language with many advanced features including, soft (or optional) typing, BNF-like macro system, regular expression, multi-dimensional numeric array, closure, coroutine, asynchrono