pliant

Other than Ingo, has anyone taken a look at the Pliant language? http://pliant.cx There seem to be many parallels between REBOL and Pliant It fits on a floppy, was designed as a "glue" language between machine code and human symbols, has a rich set of datatypes, supports many internet protocols, and is extensible through user-written text files ("scripts? modules? same difference!") It has recently become available in an "operating system" version. -chaz

HI, I went to see... I really don't like the syntax. I find it very confusing. When you read through the basic syntax page, it seems that every thing has its own rule... The syntax is very confusing. The author claims that its easier than c... but There are so many different types of words that I find it even more confusing... things like ".+." don't strike me as being easy to read. the only thing I say that seems cool is that indentations replace brackets, which I always taught was logical. Note that I haven't Gone through the site... but the "Pliant is better than C" attitude which comes back often makes me think that the author still thinking like a C or Perl programmer and just wants a different syntax for the same kind of work... no, in my mind, there is -still- one and only alternative to REBOL and that's python, especially if linked to CORBA... but now we have rugby and ios (and will soon have xwire)... so who cares :-) My two cents.... (actually, being Canadian, I'd have to say my ONE cent, our currency being so lame). -Maxim

Media wrote:

> no, in my mind, there is -still- one and only alternative to REBOL and > that's python, especially if linked to CORBA... but now we have rugby and > ios (and will soon have xwire)... so who cares :-)