Could we have someone, maybe an editor, tighten up the summary a bit? Here's what I see:
idea : # times it occurs
"Let's mention this on /." : 3
"It's done" : 2
small runtime : 2
features : 3 (plus that laundry list of actual features)
Instead, let's try this:
"The Dao language has recently made its first beta release, and we think you Slashdotters will Eff'ing love it. Dao is an optionally-typed programming language that supports many advanced features (probably as many as Python ) with a small runtime (closer to Lua than Python). Besides optional typing, Dao also has built-in support for concurrent programming for multicore computers, very friendly C programming interfaces for embedding and extending, an LLVM-based JIT compiler, a Clang-based module for embedding C/C++ codes in Dao, and a Clang-based tool for automatic binding generation from C/C++ header files."
See? That wasn't so tough, probably took 5 minutes, and is much more readable....