Asterisk - Application

Asterisk is an open source application created in 1999.

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Asterisk is a software implementation of a telephone private branch exchange (PBX); it allows attached telephones to make calls to one another, and to connect to other telephone services, such as the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services. Its name comes from the asterisk symbol "*". Asterisk is released with a dual license model, using the GNU General Public License (GPL) as a free software license and a proprietary software license to permit licensees to distribute proprietary, unpublished system components. Read more on Wikipedia...

Asterisk website
Asterisk Wikipedia page
Asterisk first developed in Sangoma Technologies Corporation
CodeMirror package for syntax highlighting Asterisk
See also: (4 related languages)C, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris

Example from the Hello World Collection:

;; Hello world in Asterisk

exten => s,1,NoOp(Hello World)