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authorRoman Bogorodskiy <novel@FreeBSD.org>2006-06-15 14:54:57 +0000
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+The Arena language was designed with the following main features in mind,
+most of which were added on top of a very C-like core to support better
+ad-hoc scripting:
+
+ * syntax similar to ANSI C
+ * standard library similar to ANSI C
+ * automatic memory management
+ * runtime polymorphism
+ * support for exceptions
+ * support for anonymous functions
+
+Additionally, an interpreter for the Arena language can be implemented
+to be very compact in terms of both source code size and memory consumption.
+
+WWW: http://www.minimalinux.org/arena/