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nix-language: attempt to simplify concept overview (#397)

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In the current text its not even for me clear what it is referring to. This rewrite tries to give more examples for each concept of the language.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
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Jörg Thalheim 2022-11-24 10:05:32 +01:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -209,15 +209,19 @@ The Nix language has only few basic constructs which can be combined arbitrarily
- Primitive data types
as basic building blocks
such as integers or character strings
- Compound data types and, in the broader sense, functions
- Compound data types
to produce and transform complex data
that is, lists and attribute sets
- Functions and operators
to produce and transform data
- Name assignment
to manipulate complex data as units
to manipulate data as units
The language is *pure*, that is, its evaluation does not observe or interact with the outside world – with one notable exception:
reading files, to capture what build tasks will operate on.