Nimrod 0.8.10

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.<br /><br />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).<br /><br />Nimrod is efficient<br /><br /> * Native code generation (currently via compilation to C), not dependant on a virtual machine: Nimrod produces small executables without dependencies for easy redistribution.<br /> * A fast non-recursive incremental and generational garbage collector that should be well suited for soft real-time systems (like games).<br /> * 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.<br /> * Zero-overhead iterators.<br /> * Cross-module inlining.<br /> * Dynamic method binding with inlining and without virtual method table.<br /> * Compile time evaluation of user-defined functions.<br /> * Whole program dead code elimination: Only used functions are included in the executable.<br /> * Value-based datatypes: For instance, objects and arrays can be allocated on the stack.<br /><br />Nimrod is expressive<br /><br /> * The Nimrod compiler and all of the standard library are implemented in Nimrod.<br /> * Built-in high level datatypes: strings, sets, sequences, etc.<br /> * Modern type system with local type inference, tuples, variants, generics, etc.<br /> * 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 re module.<br /> * Macros can modify the abstract syntax tree at compile time.<br /><br />Nimrod is elegant<br /><br /> * Macros can use the imperative paradigm to construct parse trees. Nimrod does not require a different coding style for meta programming.<br /> * Macros cannot change Nimrod's syntax because there is no need for it. Nimrod's syntax is flexible enough.<br /> * 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.<br /><br />Nimrod plays nice with others<br /><br /> * The Nimrod Compiler runs on Windows, Linux, BSD and Mac OS X. Porting to other platforms is easy.<br /> * 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.<br /> * A C to Nimrod conversion utility: New bindings to C libraries are easily generated by c2nim.<br /> * A Pascal to Nimrod conversion utility: A large subset of Object Pascal can be translated to Nimrod automatically!

Requirements:	No special requirements
Platforms:	Mac, Mac OSX
Keyword:	Abstract,  Bindings,  Compiler,  Garbage,  Imperative,  Inlining,  Macros,  Memory,  Method,  Nimrod,  Operators,  Programming,  Syntax,  System,  Systems,  Virtual,  Windows
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