Lingo - Programming language

Lingo is a programming language created in 1988.

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Lingo is a verbose object-oriented (OO) scripting language developed by John H. Thompson for use in Adobe Director (formerly Macromedia Director). Lingo is used to develop desktop application software, interactive kiosks, CD-ROMs and Adobe Shockwave content. Read more on Wikipedia...

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Early development of Lingo happened in MacroMind
Explore Lingo snippets on Rosetta Code
Lingo on HOPL
Lingo appears in the TIOBE Index
See also: (4 related languages) Smalltalk, HyperTalk, JavaScript, ActionScript

Example from hello-world:

on startmovie
  alert "Hello World"
end

Example from the Hello World Collection:

Hello World in Lingo (Macromedia Director)

on startmovie
  alert "Hello World"
end

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Comments	✓
Semantic Indentation	X