Batchfile - Programming language

Batchfile is a programming language created in 1985.

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A batch file is a kind of script file in DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows. It consists of a series of commands to be executed by the command-line interpreter, stored in a plain text file. A batch file may contain any command the interpreter accepts interactively and use constructs that enable conditional branching and looping within the batch file, such as IF, FOR, and GOTO labels. Read more on Wikipedia...

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There are at least 72,380 Batchfile repos on GitHub
Early development of Batchfile happened in Microsoft
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 76k users using Batchfile in 98k repos on GitHub
There are 9 Project Euler users using Batchfile
Monaco package for syntax highlighting Batchfile
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Batchfile
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Batchfile
Learn Batchfile on exercism.
See also: (13 related languages) JCL, Linux, Microsoft Notepad, Unicode, KiXtart, VBScript, JScript, PowerShell, Unix, Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP

Example from Riju:

echo "Hello, world!"

Example from hello-world:

@echo off
echo Hello World

Example from Wikipedia:

C:\>set /p ="Message 1"<nul >data.txt
C:\>set /p ="Message 2"<nul >>data.txt
C:\>set /p ="Message 3"<nul >>data.txt
C:\>type data.txt
Message 1Message 2Message 3

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Gotos	✓	:: this would create an endless loop :myLabel goto myLabel
Comments	✓	REM A comment :: Another type of comment
Line Comments	✓	REM A comment	REM
Strings	✓
Print() Debugging	✓		echo
Case Insensitive Identifiers	✓