a high level imperative, object-oriented programming language, designed to be a light-weight scripting language that fits in the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of applications like video games

"a dynamically-typed concurrent language in which lightweight isolated processes communicate by message passing. Thorn includes powerful aggregate data types, a class-based object system, first-class functions, an expressive module system, and a variety of features supporting the gradual evolution of prototype scripts into robust programs."

"a modern and simple programming language which can run on virtually any computer. Move is primarily aimed toward people not previously familiar with programming computers."

a reflective, object oriented programming language with dynamic message dispatch (late binding) and both static and dynamic typing ... uses the runtime library of Objective-C to support the Cocoa and GNUstep APIs natively