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, flexible data structures, intelligent procedures and package management, plus various configuration facilities.

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.

What does the name Agena mean ?
 
Agena is the second brightest star in the Southern hemisphere and the name of an unmanned target vehicle used in the 1960s in NASA's Gemini missions. Click here for some pictures of past times.