Spica is a library of libraries of algorithms and data structures, along with some additional, occasionaly useful components. It is intended primarily to be educational but it is also my hope that some of the components developed here could be useful in real programs.

The libraries are divided by language with each language being in its own subfolder. The individual libraries are intended to be largely self-contained. Each library is documented separately, tested separately, and contains independent build control files, licenses, .gitignore files, etc. This is so each library could become a separate project in the future with a minimum of difficulty. Also a user interested in only one library (i.e., only one language) can focus on the folder containing that library alone and ignore the other folders entirely.

The following sub-libraries are in separate repositories:

• The Spica Ada library
• The Spica C library
• The Spica C++ library

The web pages in the top level folder are Spica-wide documentation files. They mostly provide links to, and summaries of, the documentation available in each language subfolder.

If you wish to contact me regarding Spica, and I welcome comments, bug reports, or contributions.

Peter Chapin
spicacality@kelseymountain.org

P.S. Spica, pronounced "spy-kah" is the brightest star in the constellation Virgo. I chose that name because it was short enough to be reasonable to type as a namespace, module, or package prefix, wasn't too distracting, and because my zodiac sign is Virgo.