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Unlike haXe, the standard Neko language is dynamically typed. However, also unlike haXe, the
language was created to be more easily interfaced by language generators rather than directly by a
programmer. The reason for this is that the Neko compiler was never truly meant to exist by itself, but
to provide a powerful tool and virtual machine for existing languages. This is why haXe and Neko are
considered a package or toolkit.
Chapter 1: Introducing haXe
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The scripting capabilities of Neko come in three flavors:
The Standard Neko language
NXML
NekoML
The standard Neko script is a procedural language definition, which you use later in this book while you
prototype your own custom modules. The Neko language makes testing new modules very quick and
easy, as no object - oriented structure or methods are required.
The other two Neko languages include an XML style language called NXML and a functional
language called NekoML. NXML, like the procedural Neko language, is aimed at language compilers
and generators.


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