Example of Rust code

[Peter Alexander]

On Saturday, 11 August 2012 at 14:45:55 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 02:19 +0200, David Piepgrass wrote:
> […]
>> I hope someday to have a programming system whose features are 
>> not limited to whatever features the language designers saw 
>> fit to include -- a language where the users can add their own 
>> features, all the while maintaining "native efficiency" like 
>> D. That language would potentially allow Rust-like code, 
>> D-like code, Ruby-like code and even ugly C-like code.
>> 
>> I guess you don't want to be the one to kickstart that PL. 
>> I've been planning to do it myself, but so far the task seems 
>> just too big for one person.
>
> <quasi-troll>
> Isn't that language Lisp?
> </quasi-troll>

You missed the native efficiency part :-)

I think XL is the closest thing that currently exists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XL_(programming_language)