Writing your first lines of code in ATS
Now that we have an ATS install up and running on our system, it’s time to put it to use. We sill start off by writing the standard “hello world” program because the Computer Science Tutorial Gods might smite me if we do not. Start by making a new file in your favorite text editor, (I use Emacs with the ats2-mode plugin), and enter the following text:
The first in a series of ATS tutorials on how to install ATS on *nix Operating Systems.
Welcome to a new series of tutorials that I plan on writing over the course of the next several months called “The Joy of ATS.” For starters, you may not be familiar with ATS, as I wasn’t until a few months ago. From the ATS website, ats-lang.org:
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Ryan King is a Software Engineer at Cogo Labs in Cambridge, MA with a BA in Computer Science from Boston University. In his free time he works on the development of the ATS ecoystem.
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