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import ../code/conceptPage.scroll
id minc
name MINC
appeared 1985
tags pl
centralPackageRepositoryCount 0
country United States
originCommunity Princeton University
wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINC
related c perl python tcl
summary MINC ("MINC is not C") is a data specification language written in the mid-1980s by a Princeton University graduate student named Lars Graf. This kind of naming is known as a "recursive acronym". It contains many (though not all) of the syntactical capabilities of the C programming language, and can be used to implement simple procedural programs that can be executed by a runtime parser (that is to say, MINC does not need to be compiled in any way). MINC continues to be used only in a handful of programs written in the 1980s (e.g. Real-Time Cmix). It has been for all intents and purposes superseded by modern scripting languages such as Perl, Python, and Tcl. A controversial aspect of the language is whether it is pronounced "mink" or "min-see".
created 2004
backlinksCount 6
pageId 479897
revisionCount 31
dailyPageViews 3
appeared 1980