ABC

A Dictionary of Computing | Date: 2004

ABC
1. Abbrev. for Atanasoff–Berry computer.

2. An interactive programming language designed as a replacement for Basic by CWI (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica – the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands). It is a useful teaching language and also influenced the development of Python.


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