Introduction

This is a reference manual for ELI programming language. For more information about ELI, please visit fastarray and wiki.

Unlike APL, ELI uses ASCII characters. ELI has one or two ASCII characters to denote one APL notation. Normally, the second character is a dot(.) which extends a function to another similar function. For example, in terms of dyadic functions, the Asterisk(*) is the multiplication and the *. is the power. This design helps ELI programmers quickly grasp the language with rich primitives.

ELI is a succinct and powerful array programming language. You don’t need to write loops for iterating every element in arrays. Instead, the set of well-designed primitives can take over the loops so that programmers are freed from tedious labor work and use ELI as a tool of thought.

ELI On-line

Active

• Since 2015 (Mirror site)

  School of computer science at McGill University

  http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~hanfeng.c/eli/
• Since 2012 (Official)

  Google App Engine

  http://fastarray.appspot.com

Deprecated

• 2014 to 2015

  School of computing at Queen’s University

  http://cs.queensu.ca/~chenh/eli/
• 2010 to 2012

  Zhejiang Normal University

  http://mpi.zjnu.edu.cn/eli/

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