Praat Script - Programming language

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Praat Script is a programming language created in 1997.

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27Years Old

Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/praat/praat

Praat: Doing Phonetics By Computer

Praat Script website
Praat Script is developed on GitHub and has 915 stars
Praat Script first developed in Universiteit van Amsterdam

Example from the web:

clearinfo
# print fizzbuzz result
procedure fizzbuzz: .i
	if .i mod 15 == 0
		appendInfoLine: "fizzbuzz"
	elsif .i mod 3 == 0
		appendInfoLine: "fizz"
	elsif .i mod 5 == 0
		appendInfoLine: "buzz"
	else
		appendInfoLine: .i
	endif
endproc

for i from 1 to 100
	@fizzbuzz: i
endfor

Language features

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