OpenEdge ABL - Programming language

OpenEdge ABL is an open source programming language created in 2006.

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OpenEdge Advanced Business Language, or OpenEdge ABL for short, is a business application development language created and maintained by Progress Software Corporation (PSC). The language, typically classified as a fourth-generation programming language, uses an English-like syntax to simplify software development. The language was called PROGRESS or Progress 4GL up until version 9, but in 2006 PSC changed the name to OpenEdge Advanced Business Language (OpenEdge ABL) in order to overcome a presumed industry perception that 4GLs were less capable than other languages. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
There are at least 72 OpenEdge ABL repos on GitHub
Early development of OpenEdge ABL happened in Progress Software Corporation
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 2k users using OpenEdge ABL in 3k repos on GitHub
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for OpenEdge ABL
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for OpenEdge ABL
See also: (2 related languages) SQL, ISBN

Example from Linguist:

MESSAGE "Hello, world!".

Example from Wikipedia:

FOR EACH customer WHERE customer.custno = 14 EXCLUSIVE-LOCK:
    ASSIGN customer.salesman = 'Fred'.
END.

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Comments	✓
MultiLine Comments	✓
Integers	✓
Floats	✓
Hexadecimals	✓