METAPOST - Programming language

METAPOST is a programming language created in 1994 by John D. Hobby.

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MetaPost refers to both a programming language and the interpreter of the MetaPost programming language. Both are derived from Donald Knuth's Metafont language and interpreter. MetaPost produces vector graphic diagrams from a geometric/algebraic description. Read more on Wikipedia...

METAPOST Wikipedia page
METAPOST first developed in https://web.archive.org/web/20070929092912/http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost/
METAPOST on HOPL
Read more about METAPOST on the web: 1.

Example from the web:

beginfig(2);
u=1cm;
draw (2u,2u)--(0,0)--(0,3u)--(3u,0)--(0,0);
pickup pencircle scaled 4pt;
for i=0 upto 2:
 for j=0 upto 2: drawdot (i*u,j*u); endfor
endfor
endfig