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>  An imperative programming language originally designed as a
> replacement for BASIC: interactive, very easy to learn, but
> structured, high-level, and easy to use
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It is suitable for general everyday programming, the sort of
programming that 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 is simple to learn due to the small number of types in the
language (five). If you already know Pascal or something similar you
can learn the whole language in an hour or so. It is easy to use
because the data-types are very high-level.

For more information:

<https://web.archive.org/web/19990127100007/http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/>

DL #1 MacABC v1.0.4 .01

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

The current implementation for the Apple Macintosh is a rather
straightforward port of the Unix/MS-DOS version. This means that the
user interface does not completely follow Macintosh standards. Also,
the ABC philosophy sometimes collides with the Mac Guidelines.

ABC has been designed iteratively and the present version is the 4th
iteration

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