Agena

Agena is a procedural programming language that has a significant importance in the science and mathematical computing fields. Featuring libraries and functions optimized for numeric computations, visualization and data analysis, the programming language meets requirements of complex algorithms and large datasets. Simply put, it makes it convenient to quickly test and modify code as well as visualize the results.

Let's assume for a second that you are a researcher interested in learning the correlation between a treatment and patient outcome. In this case, you can use Agena to write a program that can read the patient dataset and perform various statistical analyses to identify the possible correlation. The same program can be later on used on other datasets, as you can easily modify and rerun it.

The programming language is suitable even for those without an extensive technical background, as it boasts a simple and consistent syntax that allows for easy code readability. One of the reason for this resides in the clear separation of expressions and statements, which is quite important, especially when working with large datasets. Moreover, it comes with snippets and includes support for complex data structures, including matrices and vectors.

Working with the language is satisfying, as you can see the results immediately after entering the commands. In other words, you don’t have to wait until you can test your code and explore with other ideas that come to mind. Speaking of convenience, it enables you to automate various repetitive tasks, batch process data or build more complex programs via its scripting capabilities.

Lastly, it is worth mentioning that Agena can work smoothly with other programming language, such as C, C++ or Python. To put it simply, you could write your code without having to worry that you won’t be able to include it into your existing applications.