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This page is intended to provide an overview of Clean tutorials. This overview may contain links to external websites, but tutorials may also be included in this wiki directly.
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== Clean language report ==
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The language report (versions 1.3 and 2.0) written by Rinus Plasmeijer and Marko van Eekelen (University of Nijmegen) is the reference manual for the Clean programming language.
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It is a must for anyone who wants to write serious Clean applications.
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=== Latest version ===
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An automatically built version of the language report (including pdf and html versions) can always be found here: [ftp://ftp.cs.ru.nl/pub/Clean/builds/windows-x64/clean-language-report-windows-x64-latest.zip zip]/[ftp://ftp.cs.ru.nl/pub/Clean/builds/linux-x64/clean-language-report-linux-x64-latest.tgz tgz].
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=== All versions ===
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{| style="background: #7fc0e9; border: 1px solid #fff; padding: 10px;"
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!Clean Version || PDF || Html || Postscript || Word
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|2.2 || [http://clean.cs.ru.nl/download/doc/CleanLangRep.2.2.pdf 2.1M] || [http://clean.cs.ru.nl/download/html_report/CleanRep.2.2_1.htm multi-page] || - || -
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|2.1 || [http://clean.cs.ru.nl/download/Clean20/doc/CleanLangRep.2.1.pdf 1.8M] || - || - || -
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|2.0 || [http://clean.cs.ru.nl/download/Clean20/doc/CleanRep2.0.pdf 2M] || - || - || -
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|1.3.1 || [http://www.sws.cs.ru.nl/publications/papers/cleanmanual/CleanRep.1.3.1.pdf.zip 661K] || - || [http://www.sws.cs.ru.nl/publications/papers/cleanmanual/CleanRep.1.3.1.ps.zip 1432K] || [http://www.sws.cs.ru.nl/publications/papers/cleanmanual/CleanRep.1.3.1.doc.zip 275K]
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|1.3 || [http://clean.cs.ru.nl/download/Clean13/doc/refman13.pdf.gz 309K] || - || [http://clean.cs.ru.nl/download/Clean13/doc/refman13.ps.gz 319K] || [http://clean.cs.ru.nl/download/Clean13/doc/refman13.rtf.gz 377K]
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|1.1 || [http://clean.cs.ru.nl/download/Clean11/doc/refman11.pdf.gz 455K] || - || [http://clean.cs.ru.nl/download/Clean11/doc/refman11.ps.gz 669K] || [http://clean.cs.ru.nl/download/Clean11/doc/refman11.rtf.gz 591K]
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== Clean books ==
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There are several books about Clean:
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* [[Functional Programming in Clean]] is a practical book in progress intended as an introduction to functional programming in Clean for undergraduate students. It is available online.
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* [[Functional Programming and Parallel Graph Rewriting]] is a book that describes the theoretical foundation and implementation of Clean. It has been published by Addison Wesley in 1993.
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* [http://www.discenda.org/Clean/ Programming in Clean] is a nice Clean book for beginners. It is available online.
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== Libraries ==
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Documents concerning Clean libraries:
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* A Concise Guide to Clean 3.x StdEnv ([[File:ConciseGuideToClean3xStdEnv.pdf]]) gives an overview of the StdEnv library of Clean '''3'''.x
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* A Concise Guide to Clean 2.x StdEnv ([[File:ConciseGuideToClean2xStdEnv.pdf]]) gives an overview of the StdEnv library of Clean '''2'''.x
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* [http://clean.cs.ru.nl/download/supported/ObjectIO.1.2/doc/tutorial.pdf A Tutorial to the Clean Object I/O Library - Version 1.2.] gives a comprehensive overview of the Object I/O library of Clean. Please note that this document is included in every Windows distribution (check out help).
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== Community documentation ==
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[https://top-software.nl TOP Software] maintains some documentation at [https://top-software.gitlab.io/clean-lang/ top-software.gitlab.io/clean-lang] to which anyone can contribute.
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== Cloogle ==
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[https://cloogle.org Cloogle] is the official Clean search engine that indexes all standard libraries, external libraries, compiler errors, ABC instructions, builtins and syntax elements.

Latest revision as of 09:11, 23 March 2021

Clean language report

The language report (versions 1.3 and 2.0) written by Rinus Plasmeijer and Marko van Eekelen (University of Nijmegen) is the reference manual for the Clean programming language.

It is a must for anyone who wants to write serious Clean applications.

Latest version

An automatically built version of the language report (including pdf and html versions) can always be found here: zip/tgz.

All versions

Clean Version PDF Html Postscript Word
2.2 2.1M multi-page - -
2.1 1.8M - - -
2.0 2M - - -
1.3.1 661K - 1432K 275K
1.3 309K - 319K 377K
1.1 455K - 669K 591K

Clean books

There are several books about Clean:

Libraries

Documents concerning Clean libraries:

Community documentation

TOP Software maintains some documentation at top-software.gitlab.io/clean-lang to which anyone can contribute.

Cloogle

Cloogle is the official Clean search engine that indexes all standard libraries, external libraries, compiler errors, ABC instructions, builtins and syntax elements.