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From: Thomas Lauer on 21 Jun 2010 07:44
Idle 1.01 released
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I am happy to announce the release of Idle version 1.01. This is a
bugfix and documentation enhancement release.

See http://idle.thomaslauer.com for details about Idle and
http://idle.thomaslauer.com/IdleDownload.html for downloads.

This version is released under an MIT-style licence. It is available for
systems running Windows 2000 and later.


What is Idle?
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Idle is an extremely compact scripting language based on Lua (see
http://www.lua.org ). Lua is a mature and efficient language, sporting
an easy-to-understand syntax and extraordinary extensibility.

Idle adds some language features to the mix, offers a comprehensive
runtime library and a compiler that produces extremely small .exe files,
both for the console and gui subsystems.

The Idle core library (idle03.dll, just 230 KB) supports, among many
other things, the following:

- a complete GUI module for simple dialog boxes
- pre-emptive multitasking (besides coroutines which are also supported)
- win32 enhancements: console window support, the ability to send
keystrokes to other applications and manipulate windows and processes
- full Perl-compatible regular expressions
- mapping and reading of archive files (.zip and .7z files)
- a socket library for networking support (high- and low-level)
- a transparent just-in-time compiler backend which makes an already
fast language even faster

Among the optional add-ons are the following libraries:

- embed live Perl code (supports dynamic loading of Perl modules)
- compile and execute C code on the fly
- complete SQLite 3 support

(I can't monitor the newsgroup for replies to this post, so please use
the email address provided or see the above website for information of
how to get in touch.)

--
cheers thomasl

web : http://thomaslauer.com/start
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