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diff --git a/web/index.txt b/web/index.txt deleted file mode 100755 index e0ca80eb3..000000000 --- a/web/index.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,125 +0,0 @@ -==== -Home -==== - - The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language - will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good - name and now I am looking for a suitable language. - -- D. E. Knuth - - -**This page is about the Nimrod programming language, which combines Lisp's -power with Python's readability and C's performance.** - -Welcome to Nimrod ------------------ - -.. container:: snippet - *Nimrod looks like this:* - - .. code-block:: nimrod - # Filter key=value pairs - import regexprs - - for x in lines("myfile.txt"): - if x =~ r"(\w+)=(.*)": - echo "Key: ", matches[1], - " Value: ", matches[2] - -**Nimrod** is a new statically typed, imperative -programming language, that supports procedural, object oriented, functional -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 of the specification - this allows a powerful -macro system which allows domain specific languages. - -Nimrod is a compiled, garbage-collected systems programming language -which has an excellent productivity/performance ratio. Nimrod's design -focuses on the 3E: efficiency, expressiveness, elegance (in the order of -priority). - - -Nimrod is efficient -=================== - -* Native code generation (currently via compilation to C), not dependant on a - virtual machine: **Nimrod produces small executables without dependencies - for easy redistribution.** -* A fast non-recursive incremental and generational garbage collector that - should be well suited for soft real-time systems (like games). -* System programming features: Ability to manage your own memory and access the - hardware directly. Pointers to garbage collected memory are distinguished - from pointers to manually managed memory. -* Zero-overhead iterators. -* Cross-module inlining. -* Dynamic method binding with inlining and without virtual method table. -* Compile time evaluation of user-defined functions. -* Whole program dead code elimination: Only *used functions* are included in - the executable. -* Value-based datatypes: For instance, objects and arrays can be allocated on - the stack. - - -Nimrod is expressive -==================== - -* Built-in high level datatypes: strings, sets, sequences, etc. -* Modern type system with local type inference, tuples, variants, - generics, etc. -* User-defineable operators; code with new operators is often easier to read - than code which overloads built-in operators. In the code snippet, the - ``=~`` operator is defined in the ``regexprs`` module. -* Macros can modify the abstract syntax tree at compile time. - - -Nimrod is elegant -================= - -* Macros cannot change Nimrod's syntax because there is no need for it. - Nimrod's syntax is flexible enough. -* Yet Nimrod can be parsed with an LL(1) parser. -* Statements are grouped by indentation but can span multiple lines. - Indentation must not contain tabulators so the compiler always sees - the code the same way as you do. - - -Nimrod plays nice with others -============================= - -* The Nimrod Compiler runs on Windows, Linux, BSD and Mac OS X. - Porting to other platforms is easy. -* **There are bindings to GTK2, the Windows API, the POSIX API, OpenGL, SDL, - Cario, Python, Lua, TCL, X11, libzip, PRCE, ODBC, libcurl, mySQL and SQLite.** - New bindings are easily generated in a semi-automatic way. -* A Pascal to Nimrod conversion utility: A large subset of Object Pascal - can be translated to Nimrod automatically! -* Nimrod's documentation syntax is a subset of the wonderfully readable plaintext - markup syntax - `reStructuredText <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html>`_. - The documentation generator is very flexible; this website has been generated - with it! - - -Roadmap to 1.0 -============== - -Version 0.8.4 - * general expressions as generic parameters - * multimethods - -Version 0.9.0 - * closures and anonymous procs - * provide an API for object serialization - -Version 1.0.0 - * stress testing with a better test suite - * fix symbol files to make the compiler incremental - - -Planned features beyond 1.0 -=========================== - -* Threading with a transactional memory modell (the type system may be - enhanced to support extensive compile-time checks for this) -* Recursive iterators/coroutines -* Other code generators: LLVM, EcmaScript |