The The Nimrod Programming Language

by dpapathanasiou • 17 years ago

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ulf• 17 years ago

In that code sample the variable "matches" seems to be magically set by the =~ assignment. That would not be very clean. Or am I missing something?

pshc• 17 years ago

http://force7.de/nimrod/regexprs.html

You're correct. It seems to work using a template, which is a simple macro. I wonder if those are hygienic... In any case, it seems you could use the macro facility to instead have explicit bindings for match groups.

zeeone• 17 years ago

It looks very much like Pascal to me.

berntb3• 17 years ago

I'd say it tastes like chicken. :-)

Seems like {perl|ruby|etc}-light.

I don't get it. The scripting languaguages in common use are quite similar; what distinguishes Nimrod?

dpapathanasiou• 17 years ago

Macros: http://force7.de/nimrod/manual.html#macros

RiderOfGiraffes• 17 years ago

It's compiled and statically typed, amongst other things.

Did you not bother to read it?

lucraft• 17 years ago

The compiler is written in Pascal.

halo• 17 years ago

I think it takes bits and pieces from various languages.

Python's influence is obvious: iterators, whitespace, and default values for arguments. Pascal's main influence seems to be type declarations and the way things are named. C-esque enumerations, strings ending in null and pointers.

It does have lists/sequences, sets and tuples, but associative arrays/dictionaries seem like a major oversight.

joshsharp• 17 years ago

It looks a lot like python to me, but with native compilation and function overloading. Which is a good thing. I'll keep an eye on it...

cnlwsu• 17 years ago

I was curious about "Nimrod produces small executables without dependencies for easy redistribution." does this mean that it packages any third party libs in the executable? wouldnt there be licensing issues?

ajuc• 17 years ago

Are functions first class objects in Nimrod, because I couldn't find function type in manual(pointers to function isn't what I mean :)).

CodeJustin• 17 years ago

This seems pretty nice, I might start learning this actually.

The The Nimrod Programming Language

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