[gfsd]Io entry

[Steve Dekorte]

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%%short-description: A small prototype-based programming language

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Io is small prototype-based programming language. The ideas in Io are 
mostly inspired by Smalltalk(all values are objects) and 
Act1(differential protos, inheritance by delegation) and it's decendents 
such as Self, and NewtonScript.

Features:
-  small (~8K lines)
-  pure object language
-  reasonably fast (comparable to Python, Perl, Ruby)
-  differential prototype-based object model
-  untyped
-  dynamically scoped
-  mark and sweep garbage collection
-  exceptions
-  ANSI C implementation (except for inline directive)
-  embeddable
-  multi-state (multiple independent VMs can run in the same application)
-  coroutines (light wieght threads)


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%%license: BSD

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%%maintainer: Steve Dekorte

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%%keywords: prototype-based, programming language

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%%version: 2002-09-01

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