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<h2>What is Yorick?</h2>

<p>Yorick is an interpreted programming language for scientific
simulations or calculations, postprocessing or steering large
simulation codes, interactive scientific graphics, and reading,
writing, or translating large files of numbers.  Yorick includes an
interactive graphics package, and a binary file package capable of
translating to and from the raw numeric formats of all modern
computers. Yorick is written in ANSI C and runs on most operating
systems (*nix systems, MacOS X, Windows).  For a short overview, see the
<a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2184">Linux Journal</a> 
and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080207173819/http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=7750/uni1040141806673/">Unix review</a> articles.</p>

Features:
<ul>
<li>Open source, BSD license.</li>
<li>C-like syntax, but array operators make most loops unnecessary.
Matlab and IDL/PV-Wave are comparable commercial applications.</li>
<li>C API for writing dynamically linked compiled extensions.</li>
<li>Interactive scientific graphics, output to postscript.  Runs
ghostscript to convert to eps, png, or jpeg formats.</li>
<li>Emacs-based development environment.</li>
</ul>

<h2>Documentation</h2>

<p>The links in the navigation bar to the left lead to the complete
online documentation for yorick.</p>

<p>This website is created by
the <a href="http://github.com/dhmunro/yorick-doc"
target="_blank">yorick-doc</a> package.  Yorick-doc is a perl script
which you can use to generate documentation for your own yorick
plugins and packages, which integrates into this website via
the <a href="plugins/index.html">Plugins and Packages</a> link on the
naviagation bar to the left.  If you publish your own yorick-doc
website on the Web and would like to link to it from this website,
fork the <a href="http://github.com/dhmunro/yorick-doc"
target="_blank">yorick-doc</a> project at github, add your project's
documentation URL to
the <a href="plugins/index.html">plugins/index.html</a> page, and
issue a pull request.</p>