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diff --git a/web/index.txt b/web/index.txt index 9b90e94de..4a5ddeaca 100644 --- a/web/index.txt +++ b/web/index.txt @@ -2,21 +2,15 @@ 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 - - -**Nimrod combines Lisp's power with Python's readability and C's performance.** - Welcome to Nimrod ----------------- **Nimrod** is a statically typed, imperative programming language that tries to give the programmer ultimate power without compromises on runtime efficiency. This means it focuses on compile-time mechanisms in all their -various forms. Beneath a nice infix/indentation based syntax with a +various forms. + +Beneath a nice infix/indentation based syntax with a powerful (AST based, hygienic) macro system lies a semantic model that supports a soft realtime GC on thread local heaps. Asynchronous message passing is used between threads, so no "stop the world" mechanism is necessary. An unsafe @@ -24,16 +18,20 @@ shared memory heap is also provided for the increased efficiency that results from that model. -.. container:: snippet - *Nimrod looks like this:* - - .. code-block:: nimrod - import strutils - - # Prints the maximum integer from a list of integers - # delimited by whitespace read from stdin. - let tokens = stdin.readLine.split - echo tokens.map(parseInt).max, " is the maximum." +Nimrod looks like this: +======================= + +.. code-block:: nimrod + # compute average line length + var count = 0 + var sum = 0 + + for line in stdin.lines: + count += 1 + sum += line.len + + echo "Average line length: ", + if count > 0: sum / count else: 0 Nimrod is efficient |