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This wiki documents the Pipefish programming language. Its sections are grouped thematically, rather than in the order of a tutorial: that is, after the introductory section we look at the type system all in one go, then functional Pipefish, then imperative Pipefish, and then all the standard libraries, with a little advanced material saved for the end; whereas to learn the language you would prefer to absorb a little of the type system, a little functional Pipefish, a little imperative Pipefish, one or two of the standard libraries, and so on round again.
However, it is at present the best resource for learning Pipefish, and we hope that by reading it selectively and out of order the interested beginner will find it sufficient.
- Pipefish: a high-level view. This explains the goals and design principles of the language.
- Style guide. This gives best practices for the style in which one should write Pipefish code.
- Functional core, imperative shell. A synopsis of the language paradigm.
- The whys of Pipefish. This explains the reasoning behind some lower-level design choices which are sufficiently unusual as to need explanation.
