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The ABS Programing Language
The ABS programing language
Bring back the joy of shell scripting.
A familiar syntax
ABS should look familiar to most of us, as its elements are borrowed from popular programming languages such as Ruby, Python or JavaScript:
obj = {} for n in 1..10 { if n % 2 == 0 { obj[n.str()] = rand(6**2) } } echo("We have %s", obj) # We have {"10": 79, ...}Scripting made easy
System commands are deeply integrated (and encouraged); they make ABS ideal to work with in the context of shell scripting:
ip = `curl icanhazip.com` ip.ok // true ip // 1.2.3.4 echo("type something...") input = stdin() echo("you typed %s",input)Easy to run
Grab the latest release, run
abs your_script.absand see the magic happening. ABS works on Mac, Windows and Linux:
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