MINC
Encyclopedia
MINC 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).
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 It has been for all intents and purposes superseded by modern scripting languages such as Perl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".
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
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).
MINC continues to be used only in a handful of programs written in the 1980s (e.g. Real-Time Cmix
Real-time Cmix
Real-Time Cmix is one of the MUSIC-N family of computer music programming languages. RTcmix is descended from the MIX program developed by Paul Lansky at Princeton University in 1978 to perform algorithmic composition using digital audio soundfiles on a VMS mainframe computer. After synthesis...
). It has been for all intents and purposes superseded by modern scripting languages such as Perl
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...
, Python
Python (programming language)
Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...
, and Tcl
Tcl
Tcl is a scripting language created by John Ousterhout. Originally "born out of frustration", according to the author, with programmers devising their own languages intended to be embedded into applications, Tcl gained acceptance on its own...
.
The most controversial aspect of the language seems to be whether it is pronounced "mink" or "min-see".