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Seems to me that there are tonnes of new languages being developed all over the place, I wish they'd have a short list of intended uses/features... but not just all the features, rather the ones that are the selling point, why should I investigate this language further.

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Io is just shy of being 10 years old (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_(programming_language)) so isn't that new though perhaps it's getting a bit more mention recently probably because of the book Seven Languages in Seven Weeks (http://pragprog.com/titles/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-w...).

There have been a few discussions about Io on HN before. Here is one post/thread from last year: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1538835

while I second your feeling, Io is at least 8 years old, so not so new :)

yeah I wasn't aware that Io was as old as it is, which makes my rash judgment all the more rash, but I still feel that way about many of the (relatively) new languages mentioned on HN every now and then

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