ABC

ABC is a programming language created in 1980.

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ABC is an imperative general-purpose programming language and programming environment developed at CWI, Netherlands by Leo Geurts, Lambert Meertens, and Steven Pemberton. It is interactive, structured, high-level, and intended to be used instead of BASIC, Pascal, or AWK. It is not meant to be a systems-programming language but is intended for teaching or prototyping. Read more on Wikipedia...

ABC Wikipedia page
ABC first developed in Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
ABC on HOPL
ABC appears in the TIOBE Index
See also: (9 related languages)SETL, ALGOL 68, Python, BASIC, Pascal, awk, C, Unix, ISBN
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Example from Riju:

WRITE "Hello, world!" /

Example from hello-world:

WRITE "Hello World"

Example from the Hello World Collection:

\ Hello world in ABC

WRITE "Hello, World!" /

Example from Wikipedia:

HOW TO RETURN words document:
   PUT {} IN collection
   FOR line IN document:
      FOR word IN split line:
         IF word not.in collection:
            INSERT word IN collection
   RETURN collection

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Strings	✓	"	"Hello world"
Print() Debugging	✓	WRITE
Semantic Indentation	✓

Publications about ABC from Semantic Scholar

title	authors	year	citations	influentialCitations
Abstracting C with abC	D. Dams and W. Hesse and G. Holzmann	2002	16	1
A short introduction to the ABC language	S. Pemberton	1991	8	0
abc the aspectBench compiler for aspectJ a workbench for aspect-oriented programming language and compilers research	Chris Allan and Pavel Avgustinov and Aske Simon Christensen and Bruno Dufour and C. Goard and L. Hendren and Sascha Kuzins and Jennifer Lhoták and O. Lhoták and O. Moor and D. Sereni and Ganesh Sittampalam and J. Tibble and Clark Verbrugge	2005	6	0
Analisis Dan Perancangan Sistem Informasi Penjualan Produk Kesehatan Pada PT. ABC	T. Husain	2018	4	0

ABC - Programming language

Language features

Publications about ABC from Semantic Scholar