Nu is what I call a language remix. Combine the syntax from one language with the runtime of another. It's relatively easy to do; we should be doing more of the

Nu is what I call a language remix. Combine the syntax from one language with the runtime of another. It's relatively easy to do; we should be doing more of these. Backward compatibility be damned. --- The ruby/smalltalk connection is a bit of a red herring; the 'inspiration' from them seems to be just inserting symbols in the argument list. Perfectly doable in lisp, just not very conventional. http://akkartik.name/lisp.html#bind http://akkartik.name/lisp.html#bind