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@ -17,18 +17,18 @@ Welcome to the Nimrod programming language
programming language, that supports procedural, functional, object oriented and
generic programming styles while remaining simple and efficient. A special
feature that Nimrod inherited from Lisp is that Nimrod's abstract syntax tree
(*AST*) is part ofthe specification - this allows a powerful macro system which
(*AST*) is part of the specification - this allows a powerful macro system which
can be used to create domain specific languages.
*Nimrod* is a compiled, garbage-collected systems programming language
which has an excellent productivity/performance ratio. Nimrod's design
focusses on the 3E: efficiency, expressiveness, elegance (in the order of
focuses on the 3E: efficiency, expressiveness, elegance (in the order of
priority).
Some more of Nimrod's highlights:
* Native code (currently via compilation to C).
* Native code generation (currently via compilation to C).
* Garbage collection, but not dependant on a Virtual Machine.
* Portable: The Nimrod Compiler runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
Porting to other platforms is easy.
@ -38,12 +38,12 @@ Some more of Nimrod's highlights:
* Exceptions.
* Modern type system with local type inference, tuples, variants, etc.
* User-defineable operators; new operators often easier to read than overloaded
ones
ones.
* High level datatypes: strings, sets, sequences, etc.
* Compile time evaluation without resorting to meta-programming facilities.
* *Forward* compatibility: If later versions of the language introduce new
* *Forward* compability: If later versions of the language introduce new
keywords old code won't break!
* Bindings to GTK2, X11, the Windows API, the POSIX API. New bindings are
* Bindings to GTK2, the Windows API, the POSIX API. New bindings are
easily generated in a semi-atomatic way.
* A plugable parser system: If you don't like Nimrod's syntax, you can plug in
a parser and a source renderer for your own syntax!