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Updated Nimrod for C programmers (markdown)

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(Work in progress)
This is a guide for people with experience in C or a similar language. The general tutorials can be found here:
This is a guide for people with experience in C or a similar language. The guide assumes knowledge of how stacks and heaps works.
The general tutorials can be found here:
http://nimrod-lang.org/tut1.html
http://nimrod-lang.org/tut2.html
The manual provides a more or less complete overview of the language:
http://nimrod-lang.org/manual.html
http://nimrod-lang.org/manual.html
### At a glance
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Nimrod arrays can also be indexed from any number. That is, ``z: array[1..4, int]`` is an array of int indexed from 1 to 4. Trying to access ``z[0]`` would throw an index out bounds error.
In C, there's nothing that keeps you from keeping a pointer to a stack-allocated array
### Structs - Tuples and Objects
Tuples and Objects in Nimrod are kind of like structs in C, but not really.