Seed7

It contains concepts from other programming languages, but it's not considered as a direct descendant from any other language.

In Seed7, new statements and operators can be declared easily. Functions with type results and type parameters are more elegant than a template or generics concept.

Object orientation is used when it brings advantages and not in places when other solutions are more obvious.

Key features "Seed7":

· User defined statements and operators.
· Types are first class objects (Templates and generics can be defined easily without special syntax).
· Predefined constructs like arrays or for-loops are declared in the language itself.
· Object orientation with interfaces and multiple dispatch.
· Static type checking and no automatic casts.
· Support for bigInteger and bigRational numbers which have unlimited size.
· exception handling
· overloading of procedures/functions/operators/statements
· Various predefined types like resizable arrays, hashes, bitsets, structs, color, time, duration, etc.
· Runs under linux, various UNIX versions and windows.
· The interpreter and the example programs use the GPL license, while the runtime library uses the LGPL license.

What's New in This Release:

· The dom.s7i library was renamed to xmldom.s7i and its functionality was improved.
· A new library named inifile.s7i, which allows reading key value pairs from an INI file, was added.
· A new library named xml_ent.s7i, which supports XML entity handling, was added.
· The functions getLineComment, getLine, getSymbol, skipXmlComment, getXmlTagHeadOrContent, skipXmlTag, getNextXmlAttribute and getNextHtmlAttribute in scanfile.s7i and scanstri.s7i were added or improved.
· The interpreter (hi) and the compiler (comp.sd7) were improved to accept a UTF-8 byte order mark at the beginning of a source or include/library file.
· The functions lowestSetBit(bigInteger) and rename were improved to possibly raise RANGE_ERROR or FILE_ERROR.
· The const qualifier was added in many *.c and *.h files