On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:57 AM, spoon <spoon@killersmurf.com> wrote:

Delve is a new programming language intended to bring the benefits of
static type checking and functional programming to object-oriented
design and development. It is an impure, eager language (Yes I can
hear the groans of woe and cries for sanity already!)

Nice. Sounds like a fun project. If I had more spare cycles I would try to help.

Currently Delve supports:

Higher-order functions/first class functions
Anonymous functions
Lexical closures
First class continuations
Tail-call optimization
A meta-object model (classes are objects)
S-Expression based syntax.
Embedded Haskell expressions within Delve.

Could you create a comparison of Delve to other (potentially) similar languages? For example, how is Delve similar/dissimilar to Clojure and Scala?

Delve is released under the terms of the GNU GPLv3.

Note intended as a criticism of the GPL or your decision to use it, but does this impact people's ability to use the Delve standard libraries in their own non-GPL projects?