abs

abs is a programming language created in 2018 by Alessandro Nadalin.

Source code:

git clone https://github.com/abs-lang/abs

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ABS is a programming language that works best when you're scripting on your terminal. It tries to combine the elegance of languages such as Python, or Ruby with the convenience of Bash.

abs website
abs is developed on GitHub and has 461 stars
abs-lang.org was registered in 2018

Example from the web:

r = $(curl "http://data.nba.net/prod/v1/20170201/0021600732_boxscore.json" -H 'DNT: 1' -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch' -H 'Accept-Language: en' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.133 Safari/537.36' -H 'Accept: */*' -H 'Referer: http://stats.nba.com/' -H 'Connection: keep-alive' --compressed);
if !r.ok {
    echo("Could not fetch game data. Bummer!")
    exit(1)
}
doc = r.json()
arena = doc.basicGameData.arena.name
city = doc.basicGameData.arena.city
echo("The game was played at the %s in %s", arena, city)
highlight = doc.basicGameData.nugget.text
if highlight.len() {
    echo("The press said: \"%s\"", highlight)
}
# The game was played at the TD Garden in Boston
# The press said: "Thomas scores 19 of 44 points in 4th quarter"

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