I was going to complain how I found neither compiler nor VM in that source listings, and how it's not a pure Lisp, yada yada yada. Then I took a look at the author's other projects to see if he was a Lisper ..
Well, the man certainly puts his money where his mouth is. He has 40+ projects on github, the majority of them written in Nu.
If you're interested in Lisp, Objective C and Cocoa, you might also be interested in Clozure[1], a Common Lisp implementation which provides complete access to Cocoa through its Objective C bridge[2].
I don't think the "clojure for cocoa" description is apt.
1. All the examples I saw on the git tutorials we're basically just imperative programming with parentheses instead of ObjC's brackets (actually some of the examples remind me more of Smalltalk).
2. Clojure seems to be finding a niche in the web app world, whereas Nu is targeted at Cocoa app programming, i.e. end-user GUI apps.
I'm the OP, and I'm not really sure what the source of let-down is here.
Nu has closures, anonymous functions, supports currying etc. It uses the Cocoa classes and they claim it can even be compiled onto the iPhone.
So while the examples in git may be "imperative" I would guess its only because they are trying to show how to be interoperable with Cocoa objects which, not being functional, causes imperative constructs to creep back into your code. The same thing happens when you try to use existing Java objects in Clojure. This seems to be a limitation only of the examples and not of the language itself.
This is a question I'm very interested to hear an answer to. I've started dabbling with Objective-C and I don't like it much; it would be very sweet if I could write apps for the i{Pad,Phone,*} in a Lisp-like like language.
Well, the revised version doesn't fully forbid them. It would be interesting to see what you must go through to get Apple's approval. I would bet people using Lua are pretty well set due to its use in video games.
[+] [-] mahmud|15 years ago|reply
Well, the man certainly puts his money where his mouth is. He has 40+ projects on github, the majority of them written in Nu.
http://github.com/timburks
If it's good enough for him, and let's him get work done, who am I to complain.
[+] [-] yuan|15 years ago|reply
[1] http://ccl.clozure.com
[2] http://trac.clozure.com/ccl/wiki/Cocoa
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[+] [-] zephjc|15 years ago|reply
1. All the examples I saw on the git tutorials we're basically just imperative programming with parentheses instead of ObjC's brackets (actually some of the examples remind me more of Smalltalk).
2. Clojure seems to be finding a niche in the web app world, whereas Nu is targeted at Cocoa app programming, i.e. end-user GUI apps.
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[+] [-] jashmenn|15 years ago|reply
Nu has closures, anonymous functions, supports currying etc. It uses the Cocoa classes and they claim it can even be compiled onto the iPhone.
So while the examples in git may be "imperative" I would guess its only because they are trying to show how to be interoperable with Cocoa objects which, not being functional, causes imperative constructs to creep back into your code. The same thing happens when you try to use existing Java objects in Clojure. This seems to be a limitation only of the examples and not of the language itself.
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