<s>
ELI	B-Language
is	O
an	O
interactive	O
array	B-Application
programming	I-Application
language	I-Application
system	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
programming	O
language	O
APL	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
has	O
most	O
of	O
the	O
functions	O
of	O
the	O
International	O
Organization	O
for	O
Standardization	O
(	O
ISO	O
)	O
APL	B-Language
standard	O
ISO/IEC	O
13751:2001	O
,	O
and	O
also	O
list	O
for	O
non-homogeneous	O
or	O
non-rectangular	O
data	O
,	O
complex	O
numbers	O
,	O
symbols	O
,	O
temporal	O
data	O
,	O
and	O
control	O
structures	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
scripting	O
file	O
facility	O
is	O
available	O
to	O
organize	O
programs	O
in	O
a	O
fashion	O
similar	O
to	O
using	O
#include	O
in	O
C	B-Language
,	O
which	O
also	O
provides	O
convenient	O
data	O
input/output	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
ELI	B-Language
has	O
dictionaries	O
,	O
tables	O
,	O
and	O
a	O
basic	O
set	O
of	O
SQL-like	O
statements	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
performance	O
,	O
it	O
has	O
a	O
compiler	B-Language
restricted	O
to	O
flat	O
array	B-Application
programs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
By	O
replacing	O
each	O
APL	B-Language
character	I-Language
with	O
one	O
or	O
two	O
ASCII	B-Protocol
characters	I-Protocol
,	O
ELI	B-Language
retains	O
APL	B-Language
's	O
succinct	O
and	O
expressive	O
way	O
of	O
array	B-Application
programming	I-Application
compared	O
with	O
MATLAB	B-Language
or	O
Python	B-Language
,	O
ELI	B-Language
encourages	O
a	O
dataflow	B-Application
programming	I-Application
style	O
,	O
where	O
the	O
output	O
of	O
one	O
operation	O
feeds	O
the	O
input	O
of	O
another	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ELI	B-Language
is	O
available	O
without	O
charge	O
,	O
as	O
freeware	B-License
,	O
on	O
Windows	O
,	O
Linux	B-Application
,	O
and	O
macOS	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
ELI	B-Language
version	O
0.3	O
,	O
described	O
as	O
a	O
stable	O
release	O
,	O
was	O
released	O
on	O
August	O
10	O
,	O
2015	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
integrates	O
with	O
a	O
cross-platform	B-Operating_System
IDE	O
,	O
ELI	B-Language
Studio	O
,	O
which	O
provides	O
a	O
code	O
editor	O
with	O
specialized	O
functions	O
to	O
write	O
and	O
load	O
ELI	B-Language
code	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
line	O
of	O
ELI	B-Language
executes	O
from	O
right	O
to	O
left	O
as	O
a	O
chain	O
of	O
operations	O
;	O
anything	O
to	O
the	O
right	O
of	O
‘	O
//	O
’	O
is	O
a	O
comment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
execution	O
order	O
of	O
ELI	B-Language
is	O
from	O
right	O
to	O
left	O
,	O
and	O
all	O
primitive	O
functions	O
have	O
equal	O
precedence	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
2-by-3	O
matrix	O
(	O
or	O
higher	O
dimension	O
array	B-Application
,	O
e.g.	O
,	O
2	O
3	O
4#	O
!	O
24	O
)	O
can	O
be	O
generated	O
by	O
#	O
with	O
left	O
argument	O
2	O
3	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Two	O
file	O
extensions	O
are	O
used	O
in	O
ELI	B-Language
for	O
exchanging	O
and	O
sharing	O
code	O
for	O
different	O
purposes	O
:	O
.esf	O
and	O
.eli	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
ELI	B-Language
file	O
with	O
extension	O
.esf	O
is	O
a	O
script	O
file	O
which	O
contains	O
all	O
methods	O
and	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
ELI	B-Language
file	O
with	O
extension	O
.eli	O
is	O
an	O
ELI	B-Language
workspace	O
file	O
which	O
contains	O
everything	O
in	O
a	O
workspace	O
.	O
</s>
