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Welcome to the ELENA wiki!

Table of Contents

• Description
• Getting started
• ELENA 4.x Specification
• Tutorials

Description

ELENA is a general-purpose, object-oriented, polymorphic language with late binding.

Features

• Pure polymorphic object oriented language
• Mixins
• Message multiple dispatching
• Virtual machine
• Command line 32-bit compiler
• GUI IDE & Debugger
• Unicode support (utf-8)
• Complete source code
• Number of samples
• Script Engine

The project includes ELENA documentation, standard library source code, samples, command-line compiler, IDE.

Getting started

• Getting started with ELENA
• Basic Code Snippets

ELENA 4.x Specification

• Program Structure, Project Types, Program Entry Point
• Grammar
• Class Members : Symbols and Classes

Tutorials

• Building code at run-time in ELENA, Part 1
• Duck typing in ELENA Programming Language
• Using a script engine to parse the expression
• Using a script engine to parse the expression, Part 2
• Introduction to ELENA Programming Language
• Implicit and explicit conversion routines in ELENA Programming Language
• How to : for loop
• How to : exception handler
• Telling apart a parameter and a field
• Keywords
• Just-in-place declaration / assigning variables
• Try-Finally-Catch and Using code patterns
• Jagged Arrays
• New Operators Templates : .? and .\
• Implementing lazy expressions in ELENA
• Event handlers
• Creating a simple mixin
• Walking through the directory
• Basic type conversions
• Preloaded code