tool: ABC

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Language:	ABC
Version:	1.04.01
Parts:	interpreter/compiler
Author:	Leo Geurts, Lambert Meertens, Steven Pemberton <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl>
Location:	ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/abc/* or http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/
Description:	ABC is an imperative language embedded in its own environment. It is interactive, structured, high-level, very easy to learn, and easy to use. It is suitable for general everyday programming, such as you would use BASIC, Pascal, or AWK for. It is not a systems-programming language. It is an excellent teaching language, and because it is interactive, excellent for prototyping. ABC programs are typically very compact, around a quarter to a fifth the size of the equivalent Pascal or C program. However, this is not at the cost of readability, on the contrary in fact.
Reference:	"The ABC Programmer's Handbook" by Leo Geurts, Lambert Meertens and Steven Pemberton, published by Prentice-Hall (ISBN 0-13-000027-2) "An Alternative Simple Language and Environment for PCs" by Steven Pemberton, IEEE Software, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1987, pp. 56-64.
Ports:	unix, MSDOS, atari, mac
Discussion:	abc-list-request@cwi.nl
Contact:	abc@cwi.nl
Updated:	May 2nd, 1991

language: ABC

category: educational summary, or expanded.

category: scripting languages summary, or expanded.