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.. _introduction:
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Introduction
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.. index::
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single: introduction
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Squirrel is a high-level, imperative-OO programming language, designed to be a powerful
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scripting tool that fits within the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of
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applications like games.
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Squirrel offers a wide range of features like dynamic typing, delegation, higher
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order functions, generators, tail recursion, exception handling, automatic memory
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management while fitting both compiler and virtual machine into about 6k lines of C++
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code.
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