LPC - Programming language

LPC, aka Lars Pensjö C, is a programming language created in 1995 by Lars Pensjö.

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LPC (short for Lars Pensjö C) is an object-oriented programming language derived from C and developed originally by Lars Pensjö to facilitate MUD building on LPMuds. Though designed for game development, its flexibility has led to it being used for a variety of purposes, and to its evolution into the language Pike. LPC syntax places it in the family of C-like languages, with C and C++ its strongest influences.. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
Early development of LPC happened in Chalmers Datorförening
LPC on HOPL
LPC appears in the TIOBE Index
lpmuds.net was registered in 2006
See also: (6 related languages) C, Lisp, Perl, Pike, Java, PHP

Example from the Hello World Collection:

// Hello World in LPC

void create()
{
       message("info","Hello World!",this_user());
}

Example from Wikipedia:

function op = (:
        return sqrt($1 * $1 + $2 * $2);
    :);

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Comments	✓	// A comment
Line Comments	✓	// A comment	//
Semantic Indentation	X