PIC (markup language)

<p>In <a href="/facts/Computing/Kghtm9fX">computing</a>, Pic is a <a href="/facts/Domain-specific_language/n18H1foD">domain-specific</a> <a href="/facts/Programming_language/cWTYbgWa">programming language</a> by <a href="/facts/Brian_Kernighan/oW3I7FWJ">Brian Kernighan</a> for specifying line <a href="/facts/Diagram/H0PKEUrI">diagrams</a>.
The language contains predefined basic linear objects: line, move, arrow, and spline, the planar
objects box, circle, ellipse, arc, and definable composite elements.
Objects are placed with respect to other objects or absolute coordinates.
A liberal interpretation of the input invokes
default parameters when objects are incompletely specified.
An interpreter translates this description into
concrete drawing commands in a variety of possible output formats.
Pic is a <a href="/facts/Procedural_programming_language/7r5xz7kx">procedural programming language</a>, with variable assignment, macros, conditionals, and looping. The language is an example of a <i><a href="/facts/Little_language/n18H1foD">little language</a></i> originally intended for the comfort of non-programmers in the Unix environment (<a href="/facts/Jon_Bentley_(computer_scientist)/WEK7bgSs">Bentley</a> 1988).
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PIC (markup language)