This is a modified version of the ICI programming language interpreter, originally written by Tim Long and worked on by myself and others over the years.

ICI is a general purpose interpretive programming language that has dynamic typing and flexible data types with the flow control constructs and operators of C.

It is designed for use in many environments, including embedded systems, as an adjunct to other programs, as a text-based interface to compiled libraries, and as a cross-platform scripting language with good string-handling capabilities.

The original ICI implementation was in C and distributed under a public domain license. This version of ICI has been converted to be a C++ program, modifies and extends the language in a number of ways and is distributed under an MIT license.

This version changes some language keywords, and standard function names, and includes a number of extension modules in the base interpreter. This provides more features in the basic environment and specifically includes networking and object serialization as standard features to support experiments in mobile agent programming.

The file doc/CPLUSPLUS.md documents the C++ conversion and language keyword changes.

The keyword changes technically makes this version of ICI a different language - ICI programs that worked with the previous C-implemented interpreter are no longer valid. Sorry. However conversion can be automated, its just naming, but I haven't done that. To be fair I had previously called this version anici (pronouced as in anarchy) and had it use different file name extensions and naming but went back to ici.

Since ICI development has been largely dormant for the past decade I don't feel the changes to the language are a bad thing. The re-casting of the interpreter as a C++ program is a major change and its a good time to make such changes (ignoring the argument about if they should be made at all :))

See doc/BUILDING.md for details on how to build.

Most documentation has not been updated.

The majority of the documentation under the doc directory is for the older version of ICI. While the fundamentals of the language have not changed some detail has, e.g. struct is now called map, and the newer functions and types are not documented. Careful reading of the CHANGES file is the suggested work-around.

The file doc/html/ici.html has had the name changes applied and is a good starting point to learn about the language.

The fundamental issue with the documentation is extracting it from the FrameMaker .fm files and turning it into something that can be maintained.