Nimrod programming language

Mensanator mensanator at aol.com
Tue May 12 12:49:38 EDT 2009


On May 12, 8:27 am, rump... at web.de wrote:
> > > > The language and library are missing arbitrary precision integer
> > > > arithmetic, using GMP or something like that.
>
> > > True, but currently not a high priority for me.
>
> > Too bad. That makes Nimrod officially "worthless", i.e., of no
> > value to me.
>
> Well, you could write a wrapper for GMP (and contribute to the
> project ;-)).

But such a thing already exists in Python. And I spend my time
USING arbitrary precision numbers to do math research.

Just thought you'ld like to be aware that some people actually
make their language choices based on the availability (and
performance)
of arbitrary precision numbers.



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