The ABS programming language
Bring back the joy of shell scripting.
A familiar syntax
ABS should look familiar to most of us, as its elements are borrowed from popular programming languages such as Ruby, Python or JavaScript:
obj = {} for n in 1..10 { if n % 2 == 0 { obj[n.str()] = rand(6**2) } } echo("We have %s", obj) # We have {"10": 79, ...}Scripting made easy
System commands are deeply integrated (and encouraged); they make ABS ideal to work with in the context of shell scripting:
ip = `curl icanhazip.com` ip.ok // true ip // 1.2.3.4 echo("type something...") input = stdin() echo("you typed %s",input)Easy to run
Grab the latest release, run abs your_script.abs and see the magic happening. ABS works on Mac, Windows and Linux:
$ abs test.abs 1.2.3.4 type something... Hello world! you typed Hello world! $