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{{Multiple issues|{{Confusing|date=November 2024}} {{Expert needed|1=Computer science|reason=Unintelligible to those outside the coding world|date=November 2024}}}} '''MINC''' ("MINC is not C") is a data specification language written in the mid-1980s by a Princeton University graduate student named Lars Graf. This kind of naming is known as a recursive acronym.
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).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Introduction to RTcmix |url=https://rtcmix.org/ |access-date=2026-01-04 |website=rtcmix.org}}</ref> It has been for all intents and purposes superseded by modern scripting languages such as Perl, Python, and Tcl.
A controversial aspect of the language is whether it is pronounced "mink" or "min-see".
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20050320181448/http://www.music.princeton.edu/winham/Minc_tutorial.html MINC tutorial at CMIX home page]
Category:Scripting languages