What is Agena ?

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

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

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. AgenaEdit is based on an editor created by Bill Spitzak and others for FLTK 1.1. What does the name Agena mean ?   Agena is the second brightest star in the constellation Centaurus, and the name of an unmanned target vehicle used in the 1960s during NASA's Gemini missions. Click here for some pictures of past times.

Agena on Sun OpenSolaris 2010.03