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<html dir="ltr"> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/> <title>Arc: Table of Contents</title> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/assets/favicon.png"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="code.css"> <link href="/assets/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet"> </head> <body style='margin:12px 50px 0'> <div class="navbar navbar-inverse"> <div class="navbar-inner"> <ul class="nav navbar-nav"> <li><a href="/ref/">Arc 3.1</a> <li><a href="http://tryarc.org">Try it</a></li> <li><a href="http://github.com/arclanguage/anarki">Get it</a></li> <li><a href="http://ycombinator.com/arc/tut.txt">Tutorial</a></li> <li><a href="http://arclanguage.org/forum">Forum</a></li> </ul> </div> </div>  <div class="links"></div> <h1 class="links">Table of Contents</h1> <h2>Basics</h2> <ul>  <li><a href='foundation-doc.html'>The foundation</a>: a guide to the core axioms of the language. <li><a href="assignment.html">Assignment and places</a>: how places (generalized variables) are used in Arc. <li><a href="combining.html">Boolean operations</a> <li><a href="iteration.html">Iteration</a>: Looping and iteration <li><a href="conditionals.html">Conditionals</a> <li><a href="evaluation.html">Evaluation</a> <li><a href="list.html">List operations</a> <li><a href="macro.html">Macros</a> <li><a href="math.html">Math</a> <li><a href="predicates.html">Predicates</a> <li><a href="string.html">String operations</a> <li><a href="table.html">Table operations</a> <li><a href="type.html">Type operations</a> <li><a href="variables.html">Variable operations</a> </ul> <h2>OS functions</h2> <ul> <li><a href="networking.html">Networking</a> <li><a href="atomic.html">Atomic operations</a>: performing operations atomically. <li><a href="os.html">Operating system</a> <li><a href="io.html">I/O in the Arc language</a>: an overview of the operations to read and write files and strings. <li><a href="filesystem.html">Filesystem operations</a>: operations on files and directories. <li><a href="threading.html">Threads</a>: Execution threads in Arc <li><a href="time.html">Time operations</a>: Measuring time in the Arc language </ul> <h2>Derived data types</h2> <ul> <li><a href="assoc.html">Association lists</a> <li><a href="template.html">Templates</a>: Arc's template abstraction <li><a href="tree.html">Trees</a>: Arc's binary tree abstraction <li><a href="queue.html">Queues</a>: Arc's queue abstraction </ul> <h2>Miscellaneous</h2> <ul> <li><a href="error.html">Error handling</a> <li><a href="anaphoric.html">Anaphoric operations</a>: Self-referential operations </ul> <h2>Web serving</h2> <ul> <li><a href="html.html">HTML generation</a> <li><a href="srv.html">The Arc web server</a> <li><a href="app.html">The Arc application server</a> </ul> <h2>Internals</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://arcfn.com/2008/02/arc-internals-part-1.html">Introduction to Arc internals</a>: a look at how Arc is implemented on top of MzScheme. <li><a href="macros.html">Macros: the internals</a>: examination of the internal implementation of macros and how they are processed. <li><a href="setforms.html">Internals of places and setforms</a>: how assignment, places, and setforms are implemented in the Arc language. </ul> <h2>Miscellaneous</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://arcfn.com/2008/02/git-and-anarki-arc-repository-brief.html">Using git and the Anarki repository</a>: how to get the latest Arc modifications from the Anarki repository <li><a href="http://arcfn.com/2008/02/whats-new-in-arc2.html">What's new in arc2</a>: a summary of what's in the arc2 release. </ul> <h2>Index of Arc</h2> <ul> <li><a href="fnindex.html">Index</a> </ul> <p> <h2>Other sources of information</h2> If you want an overview of Arc, the <a href="http://ycombinator.com/arc/tut.txt">Arc Tutorial</a> is the place to start. The <a href="http://download.plt-scheme.org/doc/mzscheme/">MzScheme Language Manual</a> is useful for understanding many of Arc's commands, since Arc runs on top of MzScheme. The <a href="http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/FrontMatter/index.html">Common Lisp HyperSpec</a> provides insight into many of the concepts of Arc. <p> Several interesting books are available free online: Paul Graham's <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html">On Lisp</a> describes many of the concepts that ended up in Arc. <a href="http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/">Practical Common Lisp</a> is a very interesting guide to Lisp, <a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/cltl2.html">Common Lisp the Language</a> is a good reference, and <a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/">Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs</a> is perhaps the best way to learn Scheme. <p> Useful print books include Paul Graham's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FANSI-Common-Prentice-Artificial-Intelligence%2Fdp%2F0133708756%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1204610792%26sr%3D8-2&tag=rightocom&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">ANSI Common Lisp</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=rightocom&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />, the print editions of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Furl%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps%26field-keywords%3Dpractical%2Bcommon%2Blisp%26x%3D0%26y%3D0&tag=rightocom&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">Practical Common Lisp</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=rightocom&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Structure-Interpretation-Computer-Programs-Engineering/dp/0262011530/ref=ed_oe_h<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FStructure-Interpretation-Computer-Programs-Engineering%2Fdp%2F0262011530%2F&tag=rightocom&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=rightocom&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLittle-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman%2Fdp%2F0262560992%2F&tag=rightocom&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">The Little Schemer</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=rightocom&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />, and Peter Norvig's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FParadigms-Artificial-Intelligence-Programming-Studies%2Fdp%2F1558601910%2F&tag=rightocom&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=rightocom&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />. <p> Copyright 2008 Ken Shirriff. </body> </html>