Yxilon is a modular open-source statistical programming language

Programming language

A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely....

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Developed by Sigbert Klinke, Uwe Ziegenhagen, and Yuval Guri.

A re-implementation of the XploRe

XploRe

XploRe is the name of a commercial statistics software, developed by the German software company MD*Tech. XploRe is not sold anymore. The last version, 4.8, is available for download at no cost. The user interacts with the software via the XploRe programming language, which is derived from the C...

 language, with the intention of providing better performance by using compiled code instead of a language interpreter. The Yxilon code is compiled to C/C++ or Java

Java (programming language)

Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

code, and is then compiled to shared object libraries or a stand-alone executable.