MINC
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MINC ("MINC is not C") is a data specification language written in the mid-1980s by a Princeton University graduate student named Lars Graf.
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). Its relationship to C is vaguely similar to the relationship JavaScript has to Java.
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 It has been for all intents and purposes superseded by modern scripting languages such as Perl, Python, and Tcl.
The most controversial aspect of the language seems to be whether it is pronounced "mink" or "min-see".
External links
- MINC tutorial at CMIX home page (http://www.music.princeton.edu/winham/Minc_tutorial.html)