# MINC

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'''MINC''' ("MINC is not [C](/source/C_(programming_language))") is a data specification language written in the mid-1980s by a [Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University) graduate student named [Lars Graf](/source/Lars_Graf). This kind of naming is known as a [recursive acronym](/source/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](/source/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 It has been for all intents and purposes superseded by modern scripting languages such as [Perl](/source/Perl), [Python](/source/Python_(programming_language)), and [Tcl](/source/Tcl_(programming_language)).

A controversial aspect of the language is whether it is pronounced "mink" or "min-see". 

== References ==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050320181448/http://www.music.princeton.edu/winham/Minc_tutorial.html MINC tutorial at CMIX home page] 

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