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Clever is a general purpose programming language written in C++. It aims to have a small footprint and supply an useful set of features, many seen in other languages.

Want to know more?

The main source of knowledge is our website_ and our mailing list_. Oh and we love IRC, you will surely find someone online on #clever @ irc.freenode.net.

Feeling like getting your hands dirty?

If you don't know how to contribute, but know how to code, it'd be nice if you could implement one of the ideas from our wishlist_. If you don't know how to code, but think you know enough about Clever, you can help us writting or fixing the documentation_.

Coding Standards

We mostly code based on the Google C++ Style Guide, which seems sane enough. The LLVM one is also quite nice.

Use the .cc extension for C++ source files and .h for C++ headers, hopefully your compiler is smart enough to identify C++ source inside a .h (don't worry, GCC and Clang are!). Oh, I almost forgot, please use tabs instead of spaces, UTF-8 file encoding and UNIX file endings (Line feed a.k.a. \n).

Useful links

Git help:

        - http://help.github.com/fork-a-repo/
        - http://help.github.com/send-pull-requests/

reStructuredText help:

        - http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
        - http://www.siafoo.net/help/reST

.. _mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/clever-lang
.. _website: http://clever-lang.org/
.. _wishlist: https://github.com/clever-lang/clever/wiki/TODO-List-&-Ideas
.. _documentation: https://github.com/clever-lang/clever-doc

.. _Google C++ Style Guide: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml
.. _The LLVM: http://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html