expelian

As requested, here is a Windows build of the latest source tree:
hkki-3eaa1f6b3ebc3bf0dc04b17ee8cde478eb4ee264.7z  download link
http://www.embedupload.com/?d=8HUTFJIFQJ
It was built using Qt's gcc compiler and http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/ with this command line:

g++ -I C:\GTK\include\gtk-2.0 -I C:\GTK\include\cairo -I C:\GTK\include\glib-2.0 -I C:\GTK\lib\glib-2.0\include -I C:\GTK\lib\gtk-2.0\include -I C:\GTK\include\pango-1.0 -I C:\GTK\include\atk-1.0 -mms-bitfields -c main.cpp compress.cpp action.cpp stcm2l_file.cpp text_entity.cpp g++ -o hkki main.o compress.o action.o stcm2l_file.o text_entity.o -LC:\GTK\lib -lgtk-win32-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 Edit: I also published the RSpec test suite I talked about earlier.
https://github.com/mchubby/ideaf_script_format

I'd say, it depends on your previous programming background?
For absolute newcomers you may want to pick up a new language without too much complexity, and which will help you learn better software practices: Ruby or Python.
If you need to find a job, C# and/or Java, with my preference for the former as it has superior debugging capacities and overall a more pleasant syntax.
 
Later, after you have grasped the whys and hows, a lower-level language such as C++ and C.
 
 
Nore re: hkki, I developed a small test suite in ruby to check various IdeaFactory scripts (script data structures)
I think the author maybe erroneously interpreted how the file is divided, thus sometimes it works and other times not.