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#include "MusimatTutorial.h"
MusimatTutorialSection(B0100) {
Print("*** Introduction to Musimat -- The programming language for \"Musimathics\" ***");
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Introduction to Musimat — The programming language for "Musimathics"

Adapted from "Musimathics Volume I" Appendix B 
Published by the MIT Press

© 2006 Gareth Loy


Mathematics is the music of reason.
—James J. Sylvester

B.1 Musimat

Why did I invent a new programming language when there are so many excellent ones already 
available? The problem is that most programming languages are more general-purpose than is 
required for the relatively specialized purposes of this material, and a proper introduction to such 
a general-purpose language would lead the discussion too far afield. I decided it would be of more 
service to readers to specialize the language so that its features would match the examples in this 
book as closely as possible. That way, the focus would remain on the subject being coded rather 
than on the language being used to code it.

Nevertheless, Musimat is similar to other procedural languages such as C or C++ (see Stroustrup 
1991), so if you already know one of these, it should be easy to pick up Musimat. If you don’t 
know any programming language, learning one should be easier after you learn Musimat.
I present everything you’ll need to know about Musimat in the following sections.

NOTE: In fact, this version of Musimat is implemented in C++.

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// The Musimat Tutorial © 2006 Gareth Loy
// Derived from Chapter 9 and Appendix B of "Musimathics Vol. 1" © 2006 Gareth Loy 
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