it would be great if every language on their home page, as well as listing how to do common things such as this: http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/io/docs/IoTutori

it would be great if every language on their home page, as well as listing how to do common things such as this: http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/io/docs/IoTutorial.html http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/io/docs/IoTutorial.html would also give a demonstration of what makes this language unusual (beyond syntax). for io it seems like this might be some smalltalk-inspired message passing stuff: http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/io/docs/IoGuide.html#Objects-Forward http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/io/docs/IoGuide.html#Objects-F... combined with concurrency: http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/io/docs/IoGuide.html#Concurrency-Actors http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/io/docs/IoGuide.html#Concurren... but it's hard to tell at a glance. fwiw, the haskell page does a great job of this: following the "why use haskell?" gives the classic quicksort example.