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''.