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Welcome to Charm

This manual will teach you how to write Charm and how to use its development tools to best effect. It assumes you already know a programming language, so that basic terms like "string" and "variable" don't need defining. It really doesn't matter which language: if you know how to code at all, it's easy to learn how to code in Charm.

Other documents

• Charm: a high-level view. This explains the goals and design principles of the language.
• Style guide. This gives best practices for writing Charm code.
• Writing an adventure game in Charm. A tutorial.
• Functional core, imperative shell. A synopsis of the language paradigm.
• The whys of Charm. This explains the reasoning behind some lower-level design choices which are sufficiently unusual as to need explanation.