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37        The ABS programming language
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39        Bring back the joy of shell scripting.
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42</a></p></header> <div class="features" data-v-60105dea><div class="feature" data-v-60105dea><h2 data-v-60105dea>A familiar syntax</h2> <p data-v-60105dea>ABS should look familiar to most of us, as its elements are borrowed from popular programming languages such as Ruby, Python or JavaScript:</p> <pre tabindex="0" class="language-markup" data-v-60105dea><code class="language-clike" data-v-60105dea>obj <span class="token operator" data-v-60105dea>=</span> <span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>{</span><span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>}</span> 
43<span class="token keyword" data-v-60105dea>for</span> n <span class="token keyword" data-v-60105dea>in</span> <span class="token number" data-v-60105dea>1.</span><span class="token number" data-v-60105dea>.10</span> <span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>{</span>     
44  <span class="token keyword" data-v-60105dea>if</span> n <span class="token operator" data-v-60105dea>%</span> <span class="token number" data-v-60105dea>2</span> <span class="token operator" data-v-60105dea>==</span> <span class="token number" data-v-60105dea>0</span> <span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>{</span> 
45    obj<span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>[</span>n.str()<span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>]</span> <span class="token operator" data-v-60105dea>=</span> <span class="token function" data-v-60105dea>rand</span><span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>(</span><span class="token number" data-v-60105dea>6</span><span class="token operator" data-v-60105dea>*</span><span class="token operator" data-v-60105dea>*</span><span class="token number" data-v-60105dea>2</span><span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>)</span> 
46  <span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>}</span> 
47<span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>}</span> 
48<span class="token function" data-v-60105dea>echo</span><span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>(</span><span class="token string" data-v-60105dea>&quot;We have %s&quot;</span><span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>,</span> obj<span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>)</span>  
49# We have <span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>{</span><span class="token string" data-v-60105dea>&quot;10&quot;</span><span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>:</span> <span class="token number" data-v-60105dea>79</span><span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>,</span> <span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>.</span><span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>.</span><span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>.</span><span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>}</span></code></pre></div> <div class="feature" data-v-60105dea><h2 data-v-60105dea>Scripting made easy</h2> <p data-v-60105dea>System commands are deeply integrated (and encouraged); they make ABS ideal to work with in the context of shell scripting:</p> <pre tabindex="0" class="language-markup" data-v-60105dea><code class="language-javascript" data-v-60105dea>ip <span class="token operator" data-v-60105dea>=</span> <span class="token template-string" data-v-60105dea><span class="token template-punctuation string" data-v-60105dea>`</span><span class="token string" data-v-60105dea>curl icanhazip.com</span><span class="token template-punctuation string" data-v-60105dea>`</span></span>
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51ip<span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>.</span>ok <span class="token comment" data-v-60105dea>// true</span>
52ip <span class="token comment" data-v-60105dea>// 1.2.3.4</span>
53
54<span class="token function" data-v-60105dea>echo</span><span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>(</span><span class="token string" data-v-60105dea>&quot;type something...&quot;</span><span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>)</span>
55input <span class="token operator" data-v-60105dea>=</span> <span class="token function" data-v-60105dea>stdin</span><span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>(</span><span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>)</span>
56<span class="token function" data-v-60105dea>echo</span><span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>(</span><span class="token string" data-v-60105dea>&quot;you typed %s&quot;,</span>input<span class="token punctuation" data-v-60105dea>)</span></code></pre></div> <div class="feature" data-v-60105dea><h2 data-v-60105dea>Easy to run</h2> <p data-v-60105dea>Grab the latest release, run <code data-v-60105dea>abs your_script.abs</code> and see the magic happening. ABS works on Mac, Windows and Linux:</p> <pre tabindex="0" class="language-markup" data-v-60105dea><code class="language-markup" data-v-60105dea>$ abs test.abs 
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60type something...
61Hello world!
62you typed Hello world!
63$</code></pre></div></div> <div class="theme-default-content custom content__default" data-v-60105dea></div> <div class="footer" data-v-60105dea>
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