Category:Agena

Revision as of 12:52, 15 February 2010 by rosettacode>Axtens (Introducing Agena)
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Blurb taken from the Agena programming language page on SourceForge:

What is Agena ?

Agena is an easy-to-learn procedural programming language designed to be used in scientific, educational, linguistic, and many other applications.

What can you do with Agena ?

Agena provides you with all the means you need to implement your ideas quickly: fast real and complex arithmetics, efficient text processing, graphics, flexible data structures, intelligent procedures, simple package management, plus various configuration facilities in multi-user environments.

Which operating systems are supported ?

You can download installers for Solaris, Windows, Linux, OS/2 & eComStation, and DOS.

How does it look like ?

The syntax looks like very simplified Algol 68 with elements taken from Lua and SQL.

How has it been implemented ?

Agena is based on the ANSI C source code of Lua, a popular and widely used Open Source programming language.