Nimrod language

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/1/11 5:07 PM, bearophile wrote:
> J. M. Berger:
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>> You can find some performance benchmarks
>> here: https://bitbucket.org/jmb/shootout/wiki/Home
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> Thank you for the link, I will carefully read your Nimrod implementations.
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>> 	IMO the concept is interesting (especially the Python-like syntax
>> for a compiled language),
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> There several other examples of the same thing (like the Python compiler I'm helping the development, ShedSkin), Boo, etc.
>
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>> but there are a lot of rough edges and development is very slow.
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> Nimrod seems to contain no new ideas, and probably some large ideas of D2 are missing, but the syntax and some smaller details are nice.

My fantasy: bearophile goes to the Nimrod forum and says "Hey, how about 
this D language, seems interesting..." :o)

Andrei