posted on Monday, March 22, 2004 10:47 PM by demiliani

Nemerle: what about it?

Has someone of us tryed Nemerle?

Nemerle is a new hybrid (functional, object-oriented and imperative) programming language for the .NET platform.

Key features of the language include:

  • simplicity
  • C#-like syntax
  • easy to use object system (derived directly from the .NET)
  • easy access to both functional and imperative features
  • powerful code-generating macros
  • variants
  • pattern matching
  • static and on-demand dynamic typing
  • type inference.

I think it could be an interesting project, but it's not so much famous in the developer community.

Sintax is like C or C++... Personally I don't like the XML representation:

For example, the following tree: 

<tree>
  <branch>
    <leaf/>
  </branch>
  <branch>
    Foo  
</branch>
</tree>

 

would be represented by: 

Element ("tree",
   [Element ("branch", [Element ("leaf", [])]),
   Element ("branch", [Text ("Foo")])])


I think it's not so intuitive...

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