Documentation

Clean language report

The language report (versions 1.3 and 2.0) written by Rinus Plasmeijer and Marko van Eekelen (University of Nijmegen) is the reference manual for the Clean programming language.

It is a must for anyone who wants to write serious Clean applications.

Latest version

An automatically built version of the language report (including pdf and html versions) can always be found here: zip/tgz.

All versions

Clean Version	PDF	Html	Postscript	Word
2.2	2.1M	multi-page	-	-
2.1	1.8M	-	-	-
2.0	2M	-	-	-
1.3.1	661K	-	1432K	275K
1.3	309K	-	319K	377K
1.1	455K	-	669K	591K

Clean books

There are several books about Clean:

• Functional Programming in Clean is a practical book in progress intended as an introduction to functional programming in Clean for undergraduate students. It is available online.
• Functional Programming and Parallel Graph Rewriting is a book that describes the theoretical foundation and implementation of Clean. It has been published by Addison Wesley in 1993.
• Programming in Clean is a nice Clean book for beginners. It is available online.

Libraries

Documents concerning Clean libraries:

• A Concise Guide to Clean 3.x StdEnv (File:ConciseGuideToClean3xStdEnv.pdf) gives an overview of the StdEnv library of Clean 3.x
• A Concise Guide to Clean 2.x StdEnv (File:ConciseGuideToClean2xStdEnv.pdf) gives an overview of the StdEnv library of Clean 2.x
• A Tutorial to the Clean Object I/O Library - Version 1.2. gives a comprehensive overview of the Object I/O library of Clean. Please note that this document is included in every Windows distribution (check out help).

Community documentation

TOP Software maintains some documentation at top-software.gitlab.io/clean-lang to which anyone can contribute.

Cloogle

Cloogle is the official Clean search engine that indexes all standard libraries, external libraries, compiler errors, ABC instructions, builtins and syntax elements.