Editing Amiga E (section)

{{Short description|General-purpose programming language for the Amiga family of computers}}
{{Refimprove|date=March 2018}}
{{distinguish|E (programming language)|E (verification language)}}
{{Infobox programming language
| name = Amiga E
| paradigm = [[Multi-paradigm programming language|Multi-paradigm]]: [[Functional programming|functional]], [[Object-oriented programming|object-oriented]], [[Procedural programming|procedural]]
| released = {{Start date and age|1993|09|29}}
| designer = Wouter van Oortmerssen
| discontinued = yes
| latest release version = v3.3a
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|1997|10|27}}
| influenced by = [[Ada (programming language)|Ada]], [[C++]], [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]]
| platform = [[Motorola 68000 series]]
| operating system = [[AmigaOS]]
| license = [[freeware]]
| File extensions = .e
| website = {{URL|https://aminet.net/package/dev/e/amigae33a}}
}}
'''Amiga E''' is a [[programming language]] created by Wouter van Oortmerssen on the [[Amiga]] computer. The work on the language started in 1991 and was first released in 1993. The original incarnation of Amiga E was being developed until 1997, when the popularity of the Amiga platform dropped significantly after the bankruptcy of Amiga intellectual property owner [[Escom AG]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=1994-1998: From Commodore-Amiga to ESCOM to Gateway |url=https://sites.google.com/site/amigadocuments/ |access-date=2023-01-11 |website=Amiga Documents |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=van Oortmerssen |first=Wouter |date=1999-11-04 |title=Statement of the future of Amiga E |url=http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~wvo96r/e/efuture.txt |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991104065743/http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~wvo96r/e/efuture.txt |archive-date=1999-11-04 |access-date=2023-01-12 }}</ref>

According to Wouter van Oortmerssen:<blockquote>"It is a general-purpose programming language, and the Amiga implementation is specifically targeted at programming system applications. [...]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=van Oortmerssen |first=Wouter |date=1997-10-27 |title=Amiga E v3.3a release readme |url=https://strlen.com/files/lang/e/amigae33a.readme |access-date=2023-01-11 |website=Aminet}}</ref>"</blockquote>In his own words:<blockquote>"Amiga E was a tremendous success, it became one of the most popular programming languages on the Amiga."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2009 |title=Amiga E |url=https://strlen.com/amiga-e/ |access-date=2023-01-11 |website=Wouter van Oortmerssen home page}}</ref></blockquote>