ABC

ABC is an imperative general-purpose programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) developed at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), in Amsterdam, 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 intended for teaching or prototyping, but not as a systems-programming language. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1975
Designed by: Lambert MeertensCentrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Developed by: Steven Pemberton
Aliases: ABC programming language

Wikidata: Q1057802

Influenced: Python

Influenced by: SETL

Programming paradigms: imperative programmingstructured programmingprocedural programming

Language types: procedural programming languageoff-side rule language

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Latest data update: 2025-04-30