On 2010-08-16, at 13:59, Jan-Paul Bultmann wrote: > Nu seems pretty awesome, and this > (http://programming.nu/files/DeliciousFunWithNu.mov) seems just perfekt for > etoile.
Nu looks cool, but it is an interpreted language, and code written in Nu is therefore likely to be much slower than code written in Pragmatic Smalltalk. I actually did think about implementing a Nu parser for Language Kit, but concluded that it is not possible. The reason is that with an expression such as "(document library)" there is no way to know at compile time whether "document" is a function with one argument or an object receiving the message "library". Nu does this at runtime, by asking document to evalWithArguments:context: every time that piece of the program is executed. Objects and Blocks then implement the method differently. Maybe somebody else has something more favourable to say? Perhaps with actual experience using Nu + GNUstep to back it up? -Truls _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
