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Welcome to Pipefish

This manual will teach you how to write Pipefish 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 Pipefish.

Other documents

• 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.
• Writing an adventure game in Pipefish. A tutorial.
• 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.
• Version 0.4: a working prototype. This explains what I mean by calling this version a "working prototype".