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From Rosetta Code

Raven is a programming language. It may be used to instruct computers to accomplish a variety of tasks which may or may not be domain-specific.

See Also:	Raven on the HOPL

Listed below are all of the tasks on Rosetta Code which have been solved using Raven.

[edit] Features

Its described feature set includes:

[edit] From Python

• Whitespace indentation to define code blocks.
• Some common function names.

[edit] From Forth

• Postfix Notation and the Data Stack.
• Dictionary of short atomic functions.

[edit] From Perl

• Lists and Hash tables.
• Regular Expressions.

[edit] Other design goals

• Use clear and concise syntax.
• Be fast to write and fast to run.
• Use closures as a simple object model.
• Have minimal restrictions on variable and function names.
• Rely on best practices guidelines rather than imposing rules for everything.
• Interface to MySQL and SQLite.
• Support multithreading.

Source: The Raven home page

[edit] Other Resources

• Raven Manual
• Raven Downloads
• Raven Mailing List