From 972c51086152bd45aef4eb17c099fa3472a19d04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Rumpf Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:32:48 +0200 Subject: deleted web and dist --- web/index.txt | 64 ----------------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 64 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 web/index.txt (limited to 'web/index.txt') diff --git a/web/index.txt b/web/index.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 82356c173..000000000 --- a/web/index.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,64 +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 the Nimrod programming language ------------------------------------------- - -**Nimrod** is a new statically typed, imperative -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 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 -focuses on the 3E: efficiency, expressiveness, elegance (in the order of -priority). - - -Some more of Nimrod's highlights: - -* 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. -* System programming features: Ability to manage your own memory and access the - hardware directly. You will never have to use C/C++ for that again! -* Zero-overhead iterators. -* Modern type system with local type inference, tuples, variants, etc. -* User-defineable operators; new operators often easier to read than - overloaded ones. -* High level datatypes: strings, sets, sequences, etc. -* Compile time evaluation without resorting to meta-programming facilities. -* Forward compability: If later versions of the language introduce new - keywords old code won't break! -* 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! -* A documentation generator with an internal reStructuredText parser: This - can also be used to write documentation that is not embedded into the - source code. This makes documentation writing a joy (well, almost). -* A Pascal to Nimrod conversion utility: This is particularly useful for - generating bindings to any library which has a Pascal binding - (these are many!). - -.. - The Zen of Nimrod - ----------------- - - * Faster computers are for solving bigger problems, not wasting cycles. - * Static is better than dynamic: More efficient, more understandable, - better verifyable. - * Don't criple the language in the name of simplicity. - * Be backward and *forward* compatible. -- cgit 1.4.1-2-gfad0