Onyx

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Onyx

http://www.canonware.com/onyx/
Programming language similar to PostScript and Forth

Onyx is a powerful stack-based, multi-threaded, interpreted, general purpose programming language similar to PostScript and Forth. It can be embedded as an extension language into other applications, and was designed to have a small memory footprint. It is among the smallest embeddable interpreters available.

Documentation

User manual available in HTML format from http://www.canonware.com/download/onyx/onyx-latest/doc/html/onyx/onyx.html; User manual available in PDF format from http://www.canonware.com/download/onyx/onyx-latest/doc/pdf/onyx/onyx.pdf

Download

http://www.canonware.com/download/onyx/onyx-latest.tar.bz2

version 5.1.2 (stable)
released on 17 March 2005

VCS Checkout

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Categories

• Interface:command-line
• Runs-on:GNU/Linux
• Software-development:programming-language
• Use:software-development

Licensing

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Notes

License

License:BSD 2Clause

Verified by

Janet Casey

Verified on

2 December 2002

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
Jason Evans	Maintainer

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
Developer	VCS Repository Webview	http://www.canonware.com/cvs.html
Bug Tracking,Developer,Support	E-mail	mailto:jasone@canonware.com
Python (Ref)		https://pypi.org/project/onyx
Ruby (Ref)		https://rubygems.org/gems/onyx

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Required to build	cook
Required to build	gcc
Weak prerequisite	pcre (for regular expression support)
Weak prerequisite	libedit (for command line editing)

This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 29 March 2018.

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