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Introduction
- Rationale and history
- Brief examples
- Creating control languages
- Functional programming
- Downloading and building Angort
  - Notes on line editing
Keywords and tokens
Getting started: immediate mode
- Immediate mode
- Reverse Polish notation and the stack
- Running scripts
- Words and functions
- Types and literals
- Booleans
- Heredoc strings
- Retrieving value types
Command line options
Defining new functions
- Local variables and parameters
- Incrementing and decrementing
- Parameter type checking
  - Stricter type checking (numbers and strings)
- Word documentation strings and stack pictures
Basic built-in words
- Stack manipulation
- Binary operators
- Unary operators
- Basic input and output
Global variables
Constants
Flow control
- Conditions
- Multi-line flow control and ``slugs''
- Case blocks
- Loops
- The state of the stack inside a loop
- Words to create ranges
- Explicit iterators
- Conditional compilation
Lists
- slice – getting parts of lists or strings
  - The future implementation
  - The deprecated implementation
Symbols
Hashes
- Shortcut symbol get and set
- Words for hashes
- Hash to string function
Garbage collection
Functional programming
- Recursion
  - A warning
- Words for dealing with functions
- Closures
  - Closures are by reference
  - Iterators are not stored in closures
Exceptions
Getting help
Namespaces, libraries and packages
- Packages
- Importing packages into the default space
- Loading and importing libraries
- Overriding functions in default namespaces
- Local packages
- The ``deprecated'' and ``future'' namespaces
The true nature of function definitions
- Sealed functions
- Forward declarations (deferred declarations)
Plugin libraries (currently Linux only)
Useful paradigms
- Use of the comma operator for list building
- Objects with methods and private members using hashes and closures
- Local static variables
- Control languages
Optimisation and debugging
- Constant expressions
- Using constant expressions in closures
- Tracing and disassembling
- The debugger
Writing Angort plugin libraries
- Angort internals: values and types
- Building plugins
- Special % directives
Topics missing from this document
Standard function documentation
- future
  - slice
- deprecated
  - slice
- cli
  - prompt
  - args

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