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Contents
Getting Started with Recital
Starting the Recital Workbench
One of the most useful tools for writing Recital code is the Recital Workbench, a character mode interactive editing, debugging and execution environment in which commands are run as you type them and press Return.
You run recital by typing "recital" at a shell prompt. Linux also has a man page that describes how to use the recital command.
$ recital $ recital --help $ man recital
To exit the Recital Workbench, type quit at the prompt:
> quit
Running Recital Scripts
You can execute Recital scripts or programs in one of two ways: from the command line (e.g. bash) or through a web server such as Apache on Linux/UNIX or IIS on Windows. For the development of Recital applications that will be run from the command line, the Recital Workbench provides all the tools you will need to develop, debug, and test your applications.
Create a Hello World Program
Recital uses the vi/vim editor on UNIX/Linux by default, although you can set an alternative editor with the set tedit command. A simple text editor, called using the textedit() function is also provided.
So, create a file called test.prg using your preferred editor and add the following lines:
? "Hello World" ?
Save the file.
Running the Hello World Program
You can run the program using the do command from the Recital Workbench prompt:
> do test
Or using recital from the shell prompt:
$ recital test
You will notice that when you run the script from the shell prompt, the text display flashes on the screen. To have time to read the text, Recital needs to go into a read or wait state. Modify your test.prg file as follows:
? "Hello World" wait
Save the file, then run it again from the shell prompt:
$ recital test
This time, after displaying Hello World, Recital will prompt you to press a key before continuing.
