Questions: Roadmap, Publicity/Grrovy, Regexps

Hello,

Looking for a new, lightweight language to write experiments in, I recently
came upon Nice once more. What a _nice_ language!

I was wondering:

1) The RoadMap doesn't mention any dates. Is there a planned release date?

2) Why the lack of publicity? Everyone is talking about Groovy, which is a
nice language, but one that was hastely defined originally, and that now is
going through a scary "design by comitee" process that can only make it
worse. Why isn't people talking about Nice?

3) Still, Groovy implements some really nice ideas. One of them is making
regular expressions first-class citizens through some syntatic sugar? Would
the Nice designers considering adding regexp support to the language?

Other nice features of Groovy are only possible because it does run-time
binding of lots of stuff, so they should not be applicable to Nice.

Regards,

Juanco



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