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Agena is an easy-to-learn procedural programming language designed to be used in scientific, educational, linguistic, and many other applications. Its syntax looks like very simplified Algol 68 with elements taken from Lua and SQL.
It supports if and then conditions as well as sequences and vectors as the data types used in your projects.
Here are some key features of "Agena":
· graphical capabilities for the Solaris, Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows versions
· an arbitrary precision mathematical library
· easy configuration of your personal environment via the Agena initialisation file
· an easy-to-use package system also providing a means to load a library and define short names for all package procedures at a stroke (with function)
· enumeration and multiple assignments
· scope control via the scope/epocs keywords
· the external switch to a numeric for loop to pass the last iteration value to its surrounding block
· functions to support fast text processing (see in, replace, lower, and upper operators, as well as the functions in the strings and utils packages)
· the binio package to easily write and read files in binary mode,
· facility to store any Agena data to a file and read it back later into a new session (save and read functions)
· efficient statements for stack programming (insert/into and pop/from)
· undergraduate Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Statistics packages
· bitwise operators
· direct access to the file system
· xBase file support (complient to dBASE III) to exchange data with standard applications
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· The new function `strings.toutf8` changes an ISO-8859-15 encoded string to UTF-8. ISO-8859-15 is ISO-8859-1 plus the EUR symbol.
· The new function `strings.tolatin` changes a UTF-8 encoded string to ISO 8859/15. ISO-8859-15 is ISO-8859-1 plus the EUR symbol.
· The new function `strings.isutf8` detects whether the given string is in UTF-8 encoding or in pure ASCII.
· The new function `strings.utf8size` determines the size of a UTF-8 string.
· The new function `skycrane.dice` returns random integers in the range [1 .. 6].
· The new function `clock.dectotm` converts a time value in decimals (of type number) into its `tm` representation.
· The new function `clock.tmtodec` converts a `tm` value into its decimal representation of type number.
· The new function `astro.sunriseset` determines sunrise and sunset times plus its civil, nautical , and astronomical twilight variations.
· The new function `astro.moonriseset` returns the times of Lunar rise and set for a location in GMT.
· The new function ...
Via: Agena 1.8.15
