Nimrod programming language

[George Sakkis]

On May 12, 12:49 pm, Mensanator <mensana... at aol.com> wrote:
> 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.

I'm sure developers of a new language have to deal with much more
pressing issues before accommodating each and every self important
niche.