The Q Equational Programming Language [LWN.net]

The Q Equational Programming Language is a project that is being worked on by Albert Gräf at the University of Mainz in Germany. The Q language has the following properties:

It is an interpreted language.
The programs consist of collections of equations.
It has dynamic object-oriented typing.
It features exception handling and posix multi-threading.
It comes with its own standard library.
It can be extended with C language primitives.
It runs on a wide variety of operating system platforms.
An EMACS editor interface is included.
Performance is similar to that of other interpreted languages.
It has been released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

The Q language Documentation explains the language in more detail. An example Huffman encoding program shows the language in use.

Version 4.3 of the Q interpreter has been released, see the NEWS document for the language change history.

Recent additions to the language include new versions of Q-Audio 1.0 and Q-Midi 1.10. Q-Audio adds a language interface to the libsndfile audio libraries, and Q-Midi adds a MIDI interface to the language.

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GPL = General Public License

Posted Jun 20, 2003 2:02 UTC (Fri) by bignose (subscriber, #40) [Link]

> It has been released under the GNU Public License (GPL).

I assume that's the GNU General Public License. The G in GPL does *not* mean "GNU"; the license is for General use by anyone, not just GNU.