Amiga E

Amiga E is a programming language created by Wouter van Oortmerssen for the Amiga computer. Work on it began in 1991 and it was first released in 1993, and the original version was developed until 1997, when the Amiga platform lost much of its popularity after the bankruptcy of Escom AG, the owner of the Amiga intellectual property. The author describes it as a general-purpose language whose Amiga implementation was aimed at system applications, and he recalls it becoming one of the most popular languages on the Amiga. It borrows features from several languages but follows C most closely in its basic concepts. Its main benefits are fast compilation, which allowed it to stand in for a scripting language, very readable source code, a flexible type system, a module system, exception handling and object-oriented programming. The graphics program Photogenics used it for its core. The last release was version 3.3a in 1997, and in 1999 the compiler source, written in 68000 assembler, was published under the GPL. Several successors and derivatives followed, among them CreativE, PowerD, YAEC, ECX, RE, PortablE and E-VO.