[klibertp]

> Reminds me of Javascript

How exactly? Pike is no closer to JavaScript than to Python for example. Out of languages I know I think only Boo looks a bit similar - Pike is it's own thing, it's design is based on earlier LPC language, which IIRC existed years before JavaScript, Python, Ruby and PHP.

BTW, LPC was fun to work with, too: prototype-based OO, mix of static and dynamic typing similar to that of Dylan, shadowing (a bit like mixins, but not quite) and inherent liveness of the system (as proposed by Self and Smalltalk, just using text UI instead of GUI) made it very exciting language for the me back then: a fledgeling C++ programmer. IIRC it was byte-compiled, too. LPC suffered because it was too closely tied to the idea of a MUD (there were other commercial applications of it, though) and I think Pike tried to fix this. But in the process Pike made the MUD-creators community less interested in it, which drastically reduced its initial user base.