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The ABC Programming Language

55 pointsby TheFreimlast Thursday at 10:57 PM7 commentsview on HN

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unwindtoday at 7:57 AM

Meta: this might benefit from a "(1987)" in the title, to clarify it's not a(nother) new language.

jll29yesterday at 8:52 PM

There is a great documentary film about the origins of Python, which also talks about the ABC license, which influenced Python syntax (and the ABC project gave G. v. Rossum the job during which he created Python): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4QL4VqJ0

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tomcamyesterday at 10:23 PM

Seems to be strongly influenced by HyperTalk... or is it the other way around?

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Qemyesterday at 10:42 PM

Is it still mantained and instalable under current OSes?