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A lightweight scripting language based on ANSI C. The language uses a
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syntax and library similar to that of ANSI C, but adds automatic
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memory management and runtime polymorphism on top of that.
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The Arena language was designed with the following main features in
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mind, most of which were added on top of a very C-like core to support
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better ad-hoc scripting:
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* syntax similar to ANSI C
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* standard library similar to ANSI C
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* automatic memory management
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* runtime polymorphism
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* support for exceptions
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* support for anonymous functions
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Additionally, an interpreter for the Arena language can be implemented
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to be very compact in terms of both source code size and memory
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consumption.
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