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An overview of how to get started from scratch with 8th
8th has a variety of resources to help both experiences programmers and beginners.
The 8th Community Forum contains sections for general, workshop and specific platforms questions. If you cannot figure something out, or if you just want to discuss the matter, you should join in the discussions on the forum.
Frequently Asked Questions about Price and licensing, Usage and Miscellaneous items.
The 8th™ Programming Language Manual is available in HTML and also as a PDF.
The most recent words list is an exhaustive list of the built-in words in 8th, arranged by namespace, including descriptions of the words and their SEDs. This is also available as a PDF
If you are typing code in the console and want some help, there are two helpful words at your disposal: help and apropos. The first lists all words whose names match the text given after it, along with their documentation. The second does the same, but also matches any help text which contains the text you type. A further set of helpful words is words and words/. The first lists all the words 8th knows about; the second lists all words whose names contain the text given after it.
It is also possible to get help without being within the REPL, by invoking 8th -? nm on the command-line to get help on nm.