abs - Programming language

abs is a programming language created in 2018 by Alessandro Nadalin.

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Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/abs-lang/abs

ABS is a programming language that works best when you're scripting on your terminal. It tries to combine the elegance of languages such as Python, or Ruby with the convenience of Bash.

Tags: programming language
abs is developed on GitHub and has 512 stars
abs is written in JavaScript, Markdown, HTML, Go, Bourne shell, JSON, YAML, Stylus, Make, Dockerfile, SVG, CSS
abs-lang.org was registered in 2018

Example from the web:

r = $(curl "http://data.nba.net/prod/v1/20170201/0021600732_boxscore.json" -H 'DNT: 1' -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch' -H 'Accept-Language: en' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.133 Safari/537.36' -H 'Accept: */*' -H 'Referer: http://stats.nba.com/' -H 'Connection: keep-alive' --compressed);
if !r.ok {
    echo("Could not fetch game data. Bummer!")
    exit(1)
}
doc = r.json()
arena = doc.basicGameData.arena.name
city = doc.basicGameData.arena.city
echo("The game was played at the %s in %s", arena, city)
highlight = doc.basicGameData.nugget.text
if highlight.len() {
    echo("The press said: \"%s\"", highlight)
}
# The game was played at the TD Garden in Boston
# The press said: "Thomas scores 19 of 44 points in 4th quarter"

HackerNews discussions of abs

title	date	score	comments
The ABS programming language	12/25/2018	6	3