The Brain Language

News

Wed 24 Jan 2001
Finally decided to update the info on this homepage. Brain is going though a rewrite in C++, which also includes some redesigning. Some of the changes will be:

New object-model more similar to the Self language's object model
Small changes to the syntax, big changes to the libraries
Built in user-space threads
Licence change to LGPL

Thu 04 May 2000
New homepage design.

Sun 02 Jan 2000
New release version 0.5.2 This release is mainly a bug fixing version although it adds some new features like:

Processes
Interactive mode
Better error reporting
Multiline string literals

Sun 02 Jan 2000
Homepage moved to new location at http://brain.sourceforge.net

About

What is Brain?

Brain is a high-level, purely object-oriented, prototype based scripting language, mostly similar to the Self language.

Some features of Brain are:

Everything is an object
Arbitrary precision numbers (using the gmp library)
Built-in high-level data structures
Automatic memory management (using a mark & sweep collector)
Closures
Exceptions

How is Brain Licenced?

Brain is free software released under the GNU General Public Licence

Documentation

We had some of that but it is old and out of date. We will put up new docs when they are finished.

Download

The latest public release is version 0.5.2:
brain-0.5.2.tar.gz

Brain uses the gmp library to implement bignums

Because the last release is really old, we suggest instead you try out the new development version from CVS, using the following:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.brain.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/brain login

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.brain.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/brain co brain-core

For more info go here

Contact Info

For any questions, comments, and suggestions mail to tomis at users.sourceforge.net

Brain also has a mailing list. For more info go here

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Last update: Sat 27 Jan 2001

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