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Agena

Version: 
7.11.3
Release date: 
Monday, 9 March, 2009

License:

Interface:

Authors/Port authors:

Agena is an easy-to-learn procedural programming language suited for everyday usage. It has been implemented as an interpreter and can 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.

This software is distributed as compressed package. You have to download and manually install it; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too.

Manual installation

Available both as ZIP and WarpIN package:

  • download the ZIP package to temporary directory and unpack it to destination folder;
  • the WarpIN package is self-installing.

See below for download link(s).

You can install the prerequisites with rpm running the following string in a command line:

yum install libc libcx libgcc1 libssp libstdc++6 libstdc++ libsupc++6 libsupc++ libgcc-fwd readline ncurses expat sqlite

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

Agena v. 7.11.3 (19/10/2026, Alexander Walz) Readme/What's new
agena >> `The Power of Procedural Programming` 7.11.3 Despina, October 19, 2026 - New `os.findinpath` searches for a target file or target folder starting from a given folder and moving upwards toward the filesystem root. The function is available on all platforms. Some Windows examples: First get the fully resolved path to the running Agena executable, but any other path will do, too. > s := os.getmodulefilename(): c:/agena/src/agena.exe There definitely is a 'src' folder in s: > os.findinpath(s, 'src'): c:/agena/src Since on the same file hierarchy level there are a 'lib' and an 'src' folder, we get: > os.findinpath(s, 'lib'): c:/agena/lib There is no subfolder named 'lib/library': > os.findinpath(s, 'lib/library'): null But there is the main library file in the 'lib' folder: > os.findinpath(s, 'lib/library.agn'): c:/agena/lib/library.agn - In macOS and Solaris, `os.getmodulefilename` has been further improved to return the fully resolved path to the Agena executable, independently of the current working directory. - In all operating systems, `aspell.new` can now better automatically find installed Aspell dictionary files, regardless of the current working directory. - Added Malay and Swahili Aspell dictionaries to the major installers. - On macOS and ARM, values are now being correctly stored to and retrieved from integer hash maps (`intmap` package). - Solaris optimization: The interpreter is now compiled with Position-Independent Code (-fPIC) support. Multiple running instances of the interpreter will now share a single copy of the executable code in memory, significantly lowering the overall RAM footprint on multi-user systems. Drawback: The interpreter has become 12 percent slower, at least on 32-bit Solaris 10.
 sourceforge.net/projects/agena/files/Binaries/Agena 7.11.3/agena-7.11.3-os2.wpi/download
Run Agena Scripts Easily (rase) v. 7.11.3 (17/10/2026, Alexander Walz) Readme/What's new
rase - Run Agena Scripts Easily in Windows NT 4.0 or later and in OS/2. Please refer to the explanations in `example.agn`. For a quick demo, unpack all the files into a new, fresh directory, change into this directory and run the `example.exe` file in an command shell (Windows) or `example.cmd` (OS/2) as follows: example 1 2 There is also a utility called `whereis` which searches for a file in a path: whereis /r /a "agena.*" c:/agena Another one prints drive information: drive c: A script printing information on installed memory: memory Finally, cpuinfo prints various information on the CPU: cpuinfo /a In your operating system, you may want to add the path to the rase directory to your PATH system environment variable. Credit: The implementation is based on https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/cs420/lecture/LuaLectures/LuaAndC.html, written by: Associate Professor David Galles, Department of Computer Science, University of San Francisco, CA 94117. For compilation hints, check the top of the rase.c source file. ---------------------------------------------------------------- # READ.ME and DEMO Run Agena Scripts Easily (rase) for Windows /* This file shows how to execute Agena scripts in Windows NT 4.0 and later without passing the script and its arguments to the actual Agena interpreter. We won't call "agena example.agn 1 2" from the commandline, but just enter "example 1 2" in the NT shell. In OS/2 we use the batch script example.cmd to execute a script. Please make sure that the following files are now in one and the same directory: example.agn (or your favourite script filename) example.exe (Windows only, or your favourite executable filename) agena.exe (in OS/2 only) agena.dll (do not change the filename) library.agn (do not change the filename) libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll (Windows only, do not change the filename) libmingwex-4.dll (Windoes only, do not change the filename) In Windows, rename the following files in this ZIP file to your favourite name: example.exe -> yourfavouritename.exe example.agn -> yourfavouritename.agn In OS/2, rename the following files in this ZIP file to your favourite name: example.cmd -> yourfavouritename.cmd example.agn -> yourfavouritename.agn and edit the *.agn file according to your need. The *.exe or *.cmd file will launch your *.agn script file of the same name. For a more elobarate script that locates files, links or folders in a directory, check the `whereis.agn` script. For a script that prints drive information, check the `drive.agn` script. */ print('\nDemo using NO explicit function by referring to the \`args\' table:'); print('-----------------------------------------------------------------\n'); print('Number of arguments:', size(args)); # all arguments (all strings )are available in the args table, including the name of the script at index 1 print('Arguments passed: ', args); # we convert the command-line arguments to numbers local x, y := tonumber(args[2]), tonumber(args[3]); if x :: number and y :: number then print('Test: ', x & ' minus ' & y & ' is ' & (x - y)); print('Test: ', 'sqrt(' & x & ' + ' & y & ') is ' & sqrt(x + y)) fi; /* In Windows, we _alternatively_ define a function of the same name as the executable (w/o the file suffix, `example` in this case). This function will then be called by the executable `example.exe`. Just enter the following statement in an NT shell (cmd.com) and see what will happen: example 1 2 */ example := proc(?) is # this function will be automatically called by the executable print('\nDemo using explicit function of same name \& \`nargs\' and the \`varargs\' table:'); print('----------------------------------------------------------------------------\n'); print('Number of arguments:', nargs); print('Arguments passed: ', ?); local x, y := tonumber(?[1]), tonumber(?[2]); if x :: number and y :: number then print('Test: ', x & ' minus ' & y & ' is ' & (x - y)); print('Test: ', 'sqrt(' & x & ' + ' & y & ') is ' & sqrt(x + y)) fi end; /* The output should be: C:\agena\extract>example 1 2 Demo using NO explicit function by referring to the `args' table: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Number of arguments: 3 Arguments passed: [example, 1, 2] Test: 1 minus 2 is -1 Test: sqrt(1 + 2) is 1.7320508075689 Demo using explicit function of same name & `nargs' and the `varargs' table: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of arguments: 3 Arguments passed: [example, 1, 2] Test: 1 minus 2 is -1 Test: sqrt(1 + 2) is 1.7320508075689 */
 sourceforge.net/projects/agena/files/Packages/rase-os2.7_11_2.zip/download
Agena v. 7.8.10 (21/8/2026, Alexander Walz) Readme/What's new
agena >> `The Power of Procedural Programming` 7.8.10 Phobos, August 21, 2026 - The new function `strings.hirschberg` takes two strings s and t and returns their global alignment in three results: the edit sequence, the alignment of s and the alignment of t. The function uses the memory-friendly Hirschberg algorithm which yields a total structural space complexity of strictly O(N + M). > strings.hirschberg('Alex', 'Axelander'): =++=+++=! A l ex Axelander > strings.hirschberg('Axelander', 'Alex'): =--=---=! Axelander A l ex - When given the -b, -q, -Q command-line options and with multiple returns, the pretty-printer wrote the last return only, and this multiple times. The same happened when setting the 'enclose', 'encloseback' or 'enclosedouble' switches to true via a call to `environ.kernel`. This has all been fixed. - This release has been successfully Valgrind-tested on x86 Linux.
 hobbes.os-2.in/download/os2/dev-4/proglang-4/misc-23/Agena_7-8-10.wpi
Agena v. 7.8.5 (10/8/2026, Alexander Walz)
 hobbes.os-2.in/download/os2/dev-4/proglang-4/misc-23/Agena_7-8-5.wpi
Agena Manual v. 7.11.3 (, Alexander Walz)
 sourceforge.net/projects/agena/files/Manuals/agena-reference.pdf/download
Agena source code v. 7.11.3 (Source code, , Alexander Walz)
 sourceforge.net/projects/agena/files/Sources/agena-7.11.3-src.tar.gz/download
Record updated last time on: 23/10/2026 - 04:20

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Hello, thank you very much for listing me. Greetings from Bonn, Rhineland, Alex

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