meaning of abc

1. ABC 1. Atanasoff-Berry Computer. 2. An imperative language and programming environment from CWI, Netherlands. It is interactive, structured, high-level, and easy to learn and use. It is a general-purpose language which you might use instead of BASIC, Pascal or AWK. It is not a systems-programming language but is good for teaching or prototyping. ABC has only five data types that can easily be combined; strong typing, yet without declarations; data limited only by memory; refinements to support top-down programming; nesting by indentation. Programs are typically around a quarter the size of the equivalent Pascal or C program, and more readable. ABC includes a programming environment with syntax-directed editing, suggestions, persistent variables and multiple workspaces and infinite precision arithmetic. An example function words to collect the set of all words in a document: HOW TO RETURN words document: PUT IN collection FOR line in document: FOR word IN split line: IF word not. in collection: INSERT word IN collection RETURN collection Interpreter/compiler, version 1. 04. 01, by Leo Geurts, Lambert Meertens, Steven Pemberton Pemberton@cwi. nl>. ABC has been ported to Unix, MS-DOS, Atari, Macintosh. Home http://www. cwi. nl/cwi/projects/abc. html. FTP eu. net ftp://ftp. eu. net/programming/languages/abc, FTP nluug. nl ftp://ftp. nluug. nl/programming/languages/abc, FTP uunet ftp://ftp. uu. net/languages/abc. Mailing list: nl>. E-mail: nl>. ["The ABC Programmers Handbook" by Leo Geurts, Lambert Meertens and Steven Pemberton, published by Prentice-Hall ISBN 0-13-000027-2]. ["An Alternative Simple Language and Environment for PCs" by Steven Pemberton, IEEE Software, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1987, pp. 56-64. ]
2. the elementary stages of any subject usually plural; "he mastered only the rudiments of ">geometry"

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