PIC - Text markup language

PIC is a text markup language created in 1988 by Brian Kernighan.

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In computing, Pic is a domain-specific programming language by Brian Kernighan for specifying diagrams in terms of objects such as boxes with arrows between them. The pic compiler translates this description into concrete drawing commands. Pic is a procedural programming language, with variable assignment, macros, conditionals, and looping. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: text markup language
There are at least 0 PIC repos on GitHub
Early development of PIC happened in Bell labs
PIC on HOPL
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for PIC
See also: (4 related languages) DIAGRAM, Troff, Tex, Linux
1 PLDB concepts link to PIC: Pikchr

Example from Linguist:

# Dextroamphetamine molecule
.cstart
	.ps 26
	size 28
R1:
	ring double 1,2 3,4 5,6
	bond 60 from R1.V2
	bond 120
A1:
	front bond down ; CH3
	bond 60 from A1 ; NH2
	.ps
.cend

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Comments	✓	# A comment
Line Comments	✓	# A comment	#
Semantic Indentation	X