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ABC Dead

ABC
KindProgramming language
Appeared1987
StatusDead
CreatorLeo Geurts / CWI
FamilyIndependent
Sourcehomepages.cwi.nl ↗

CWI's teaching language — designed to replace BASIC and Pascal for beginners; van Rossum worked on it, then carried its lessons into Python.

Succeeded by Python
Created by Leo Geurts
Influenced Python

Leo Geurts, Lambert Meertens, and Steven Pemberton's ABC (1987) — CWI's teaching language — was designed to be the simplest possible language that was still real: Python's direct ancestor and proof that syntax can be humane.\n\nVan Rossum implemented it and learned what beginners need; Python is the answer.

Sources

  1. homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_(programming_language)