2. A Tour through the T3X Language

T3X is an almost typeless, block-structured, procedural, object oriented programming language. Programs, classes, procedures, statements, and expressions form a hierarchy: Programs consist of classes, procedures, and statements, classes contain procedures and statements, procedures usually contain statements, and statements mostly contain expressions. Variables may be atoms (ordinal) or vectors (one-dimensional arrays). Since there are no different types, composed data types - called structures - are basically equal to vectors. Constants may be used to represent frequently used or tuneable values.

This chapter is written in bottom-up order, so that the building stones of larger entities already have been explained when the entites themselves are discussed.