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author | Araq <rumpf_a@web.de> | 2011-11-30 00:53:41 +0100 |
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committer | Araq <rumpf_a@web.de> | 2011-11-30 00:53:41 +0100 |
commit | fc9fdc2b9d08e402b8504be422d403037e4ed85b (patch) | |
tree | fc5f69107279774521e727362d58dc45640468e0 /web/question.txt | |
parent | 59543ef0a3e6b3da46bc1fa42053d78db8f73779 (diff) | |
download | Nim-fc9fdc2b9d08e402b8504be422d403037e4ed85b.tar.gz |
cleaned up configuration file handling and documented the new behaviour
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diff --git a/web/question.txt b/web/question.txt index 10faf39bd..933fdf30a 100755 --- a/web/question.txt +++ b/web/question.txt @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ interpretation you will have to look harder. Why yet another programming language? ------------------------------------- -Nimrod is one of the very few *programmable* strongly typed languages, and +Nimrod is one of the very few *programmable* statically typed languages, and one of the even fewer that will produce native binaries that require no runtime or interpreter. @@ -49,12 +49,14 @@ license of Nimrod to the BSD license. How stable is Nimrod? --------------------- -The compiler is in development and some important features are still missing. +The compiler is in development and some important features are still missing. However, the compiler is quite stable already: It is able to compile itself -and a substantial body of other code. Until version 1.0.0 is released, +and a substantial body of other code. Until version 1.0.0 is released, incompatibilities with older versions of the compiler will be introduced. The semantic details of overloading, macros/templates/generics and iterators -and their interactions are subject to change. +and their interactions are subject to change. Changes to the syntax +are also planned; gone will be the distinction between expressions and +statements. How fast is Nimrod? |