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1  Intro

Gont is programming language similar to C in some aspects, to Java in some other, and to ML in remaining.

This document is meant to give a brief introduction into Gont for someone with basic C experience.

1.1  Error tolerance

Gont always tries to ensure, you won't do anything harmful. However, as it isn't very bright, it might be sometimes annoying. Generally, it is something at the level of gcc -Wall -Werror, sometimes more, sometimes less.

1.2  Typographic conventions

Keywords are written like this.

Program examples and terminal output, is written using:
        monospaced font, indented in separate line.

1.3  Other notes

Words foo, bar, baz and qux used in examples are metasyntactic variables, they mean ``any name''.

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