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| author | Marshall Lochbaum <mwlochbaum@gmail.com> | 2022-05-27 21:56:23 -0400 |
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| committer | Marshall Lochbaum <mwlochbaum@gmail.com> | 2022-05-27 21:56:23 -0400 |
| commit | cce2056e7723c316e4523b8899068b5061b50cd5 (patch) | |
| tree | 7e1b89e1b4afab887bca2484161b95a019228300 /README.md | |
| parent | 525ac8dad3fb20a6db0606549dda94617373a396 (diff) | |
Documentation covers the whole core language now
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@@ -84,8 +84,6 @@ Also feel free to contact me personally via Github issues or with the email addr ## How do I get started? -*The documentation still has some pages missing (not many now), while the tutorials are probably less than half complete. I don't think this is much of an impediment any more. Ask about anything you find confusing on the forums.* - BQN's [**tutorials**](tutorial/README.md) are intended as an introduction to array programming with BQN. They assume only knowledge of elementary mathematics, but will probably be hard to follow if you have *no* programming experience. BQN has a lot in common with dynamically-typed functional languages like Lisp, Julia, or Javascript, so knowledge of these languages will be particularly helpful. The tutorials end abruptly right now, so you'll have to switch to the documentation, which is less structured. If you're already an array programmer, you might start with the [**documentation**](doc/README.md) right away, using the [BQN-Dyalog APL](doc/fromDyalog.md) or [BQN-J](doc/fromJ.md) dictionary as a quick reference where appropriate. Be aware of two key differences between BQN and existing array languages beyond just the changes of [primitives](doc/primitive.md)—if these differences don't seem important to you then you don't understand them! BQN's [based array model](doc/based.md) is different from both a flat array model like J and a nested one like APL2, Dyalog, or GNU APL in that it has true non-array values (plain numbers and characters) that are different from depth-0 scalars. BQN also uses [syntactic roles](doc/context.md) rather than dynamic type to determine how values interact, that is, what's an argument or operand and so on. This system, along with lexical closures, means BQN fully supports Lisp-style [functional programming](doc/functional.md). |
