{{ http://strlen.com/e/pix/e2.gif?nolink}} Amiga E is a programming language and compiler I started creating for the Amiga in '91, released publicly in '93, and released as open source in '97. It was most similar to C++, in the sense that it was fast and weakly typed, and had a rich set of features from procedural, object oriented and functional programming languages.

I wrote the entire thing in assembly language, which will always persist in my mind as the craziest software engineering exercise I have ever gone through (400kb of mostly uncommented assembly in a single source file, for a complex compiler). 

The original description I gave to it:

  E is an object-oriented/procedural/unpure functional/whatever language with quite a popular implementation
  on the amiga. It's mainly influenced by languages such as C++, Ada, Lisp etc., and features extremely fast
  compilation, inline assembler, large set of integrated functions, powerful module concept, flexible type-system,
  quoted expressions, immediate and typed lists, parametric and object polymorphism, exception handling,
  inheritance, data-hiding, methods, multiple return values, default arguments, register allocation, fast memory
  management, unification, LISP-Cells, macro-preprocessing, a very powerful source-level debugger, gui-toolkit,
  library linker, and then some.

Amiga E was a tremendous success, it became one of the most popular programming languages on the amiga.

The compiler is now open source (GPL). You can get all these files from here:

[[http://strlen.com/files/lang/e/amigae33a.lha|main archive]] ([[http://strlen.com/files/lang/e/amigae33a.readme|readme]])

[[http://strlen.com/files/lang/e/ec33a.lha|ec archive]] ([[http://strlen.com/files/lang/e/ec33a.readme|readme]])

[[http://strlen.com/files/lang/e/ec33a_src.lha|ec source archive]] ([[http://strlen.com/files/lang/e/ec33a_src.readme|readme]])

== Links ==

The entire E [[http://aminet.net/dev/e/|Aminet]] archive.

Chris Handley's [[http://cshandley.co.uk/portable|PortablE]] compiler project, a language very close to AmigaE that runs on Amiga OS3, OS4, AROS & MorphOS, and Windows!

Leif Salomonsson's [[http://www.blubbedev.net/ecx/|ECX]] project, a replacement E compiler written entire in... E! and his older [[http://aminet.net/package/dev/e/yaec|YAEC]] compiler.

Amiga E development mailing [[http://www.freelists.org/list/positron|list]], still active to this day (2009)!

E [[http://cshandley.co.uk/JasonHulance/beginner_toc.html|beginners guide]], E [[http://www.amigau.com/c-programming/amigae/etut.htm|tutorials]]