Nemerle Homepage

• 1. About
• 2. News
• 3. Download
• 4. Documentation
  • 4.1. Papers
• 5. License
• 6. Authors and contact
  • 6.1. Mailing list
  • 6.2. Reporting bugs

1. About

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.

We plan to make language full CLS consumer and producer soon.

2. News

• Feb 1 2004
  The Subversion activity statistics has been made available thanks to CIA. There are also some other statistic available there.
• Jan 26 2004
  We're heading for the 0.1 release around Feb 15. IL code generator is now fully operational, we also can export and import Nemerle types in DLLs. Macros has undergone much redesign.
• Jan 4 2004
  Pawel Olszta works on IL code generation using System.Reflection.Emit to replace our current approach with C# compiler in the middle. He was also working on Nemerle type export/import using extended attributes. Michal Moskal has implemented tail recursion elimination, some limited type inference and rewritten parser in Nemerle. Kamil Skalski has been working on macros -- several macros are fully functional now (printf, for, using). He also rewrite lexer in Nemerle. Compiler contains no C# sources any more. Dawid Duda has written few standard library modules.
• Nov 26 2003
  Cleanups in documentation. Progress is being made in the compiler, particularly in CLS connectivity section (Pawel Olszta) and macros (Kamil Skalski).
• Nov 17 2003
  Bugtracking system has been set up at http://nemerle.org/bugs/. Activity is monitored in new mailing list bugs/at/nemerle.org.
• Oct 29 2003
  Jacek has updated hacking.html file to list build requirements. He also updated our build system by adding custom configure script.
• Oct 26 2003
  ncc can finally bootstrap itself.
• Oct 23 2003
  Some preliminary development info in hacking.html.

3. Download

You can find binary packages and source release in download/ directory. More information can be found on our download page.

4. Documentation

Language documentation:

• Don't Panic! - Nemerle (not only) for C# Programmers
• Quick summary of differences between C# and Nemerle
• Reference Manual -- work in progress
• Macros
• FAQ
• Random notes for developers

4.1. Papers

• Introduction to Nemerle (available as [ps.gz] [ps] [pdf] [pdf.gz]).
• Metaprogramming in Nemerle (available as [ps.gz] [ps] [pdf] [pdf.gz]), pending submission to GPCE '04.

5. License

The language implementation and this documentation is licensed under free-for-any-use BSD-like license. You can find copy of license here.

6. Authors and contact

The language is being worked on at the Computer Science Institute of University of Wroclaw.

If you are student, you can have a look at the page of the Nemerle course taught at our institute.

Any comments (especially constructive critique :-)) is welcomed. Please email us: feedback/at/nemerle.org (anti-spam: please change /at/ to @).

6.1. Mailing list

We have moved mailing list from nemerle/at/pld-linux.org, and split it. For more information about available mailing list see http://nemerle.org/mailman/listinfo/. You can also find links to archives and subscription form there. The mailing list archives provide search capability.

6.2. Reporting bugs

The preferred way of reporting bugs is using our bug tracker. You can find it at http://nemerle.org/bugs/. If you have any problems using the web interface feel free to mail us at feedback/at/nemerle.org.

There is also mailing list bugs/at/nemerle.org, but only bug tracker system can post to it.