ZILF 0.9 released

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@Jeff_Nyman has been writing some tutorials: ZIL Retro - Repository for Learning ZIL and ZILF

For reference material, there’s:

  • ZILCourse.pdf, an Infocom document written by Marc Blank, which Jeff found and uploaded to the repo linked from that thread (not to be confused with Learning ZIL, written by Steve Meretzky)
  • The MDL Programming Language: MDL is both the “top level” language of ZIL, in which macros are written and from which all the definition functions like ROUTINE are called, and the inspiration for the “inner” language in which routines themselves are written
  • ZILF’s compiler integration tests, library tests, and sample games: if you just want to know how to use some named thing, grepping the ZILF source code will generally turn up at least one tested example

These resources and more are linked from the wiki at http://faq.zilf.io, which would also be a good place for assembling ZILF-specific reference material, but I don’t think I’ll be able to do much of that myself in the near future.

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