Euphoria

Euphoria is a powerful but easy-to-learn and easy-to-use programming language. It has a simple syntax and structure with consistent rules, and is also easy to read. You can quickly, and with little effort, develop applications big and small for Windows and UNIX variants (Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X). Euphoria was first released as shareware way back in 1993. Nowadays, it is being developed as an open source project that is community driven and maintained by the OpenEuphoria Group. Its use of simple English words rather than punctuation and symbols enables you to quickly read the source code and understand it. Euphoria is a general-purpose programming language with a large standard library making it usable for a variety of tasks. Please read some sample code for yourself. The language has evolved into a sophisticated tool that can be used to develop web and console applications and supports a variety of native-only and cross-platform GUI toolkits. Euphoria is one of the fastest interpreted languages around. For even more speed and easy distribution, Euphoria also includes an integrated Euphoria-to-C translator. Euphoria provides subscript checking, uninitialized variable checking, garbage collection, and numerous other run-time checks, and is still extremely fast.