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by odino 1756 days ago
Author here -- hi! :)

I just wanted to say thanks for sharing this, it made my day. I started ABS a couple Christmases ago as I had a week off and the constant thought that there's gotta be a "nicer" way to script things, without the verbosity of higher-level languages...and I'm happy to see folks finding ABS useful.

I haven't updated it in a couple of months as I find it pretty "complete" from my perspective, but I also have some crazy ideas every now and then that I know I'll want to throw into the language.

Again, thanks for giving ABS a try!

PS. I wanted to credit Thorsten Ball for his books, without them I would have never been able to build ABS:

https://interpreterbook.com/

1 comments

Hi - glad to see you here. I just posted a comment about the sample code on the home page - your comment wasn't up when I started writing it or I might have replied here.

Does the sample code need updating?

Yes, I replied to your original comment. Again, truth to be told I've got limited space to work with on the UI to showcase some of the syntax but I agree that snippet doesn't make a lot of sense...suggestions welcome!