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by codetrotter 607 days ago
Not to be confused with the Lingo programming language that was used in Macromedia Director to create Shockwave content ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_(programming_language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Shockwave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Director

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Which is still in use today by hobbyists mainly, but also Habbo Hotel released their old client using their old Lingo code as "Origins" it runs as an EXE that embeds the runtime. People are working on emulators that will run it natively on web, and there's a really interesting decompiler for it as well.