ABCS

n. alphabet; fundamentals, basics

ABCs redirects here, for the Alien Big Cats, see British big cats. An alphabet is a standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a  phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in the past. There are other systems of writing such as logographs, in which each character represents a word, and syllabaries, in which each character represents a syllable, but alphabets are the most widespread writing system.
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"ABCS" redirects here. ABCS is also the callsign for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's TV station in Ceduna, South Australia. The Army Battle Command System (ABCS) is the digital Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) system that is automating the battlefield Army. It is designed to leverage a mix of fixed/semi-fixed and mobile networks. It is also designed for interoperability with US theater, US joint, and Coalition combined command and control systems. The Program Executive Office for Command, Control and Communications Tactical (PEO C3T) has developed ABCS as a package of integrated digitized systems designed towork with the concept of Unit Set Fielding and to provide Warfighters with everything they need to know, decide and act.
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Noun
1. the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry"
(synonym) rudiment, first rudiment, first principle, alphabet, ABC, ABC's
(hypernym) fundamentals, basics, fundamental principle, basic principle, bedrock
(classification) plural, plural form

1. <computer> Atanasoff-Berry Computer.
2. An imperative language and programming environment from CWI, Netherlands. It is interactive, structured, high-level, and easy to learn and use. It is a general-purpose language which you might use instead of BASIC, Pascal or AWK. It is not a systems-programming language but is good for teaching or prototyping.
ABC has only five data types that can easily be combined; strong typing, yet without declarations; data limited only by memory; refinements to support top-down programming; nesting by indentation. Programs are typically around a quarter the size of the equivalent Pascal or C program, and more readable.
ABC includes a programming environment with syntax-directed editing, suggestions, persistent variables and multiple workspaces and infinite precision arithmetic.
An example function words to collect the set of all words in a document:
HOW TO RETURN words document: PUT  IN collection FOR line in document: FOR word IN split line: IF word not.in collection: INSERT word IN collection RETURN collection
Interpreter/compiler, version 1.04.01, by Leo Geurts, Lambert Meertens, Steven Pemberton Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl. ABC has been ported to Unix, MS-DOS, Atari, Macintosh.
Home.
FTP eu.net, FTP nluug.nl, FTP uunet.
Mailing list: abc-list-request@cwi.nl.
E-mail: abc@cwi.nl.
["The ABC Programmer's Handbook" by Leo Geurts, Lambert Meertens and Steven Pemberton, published by Prentice-Hall (ISBN 0-13-000027-2)].
["An Alternative Simple Language and Environment for PCs" by Steven Pemberton, IEEE Software, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1987, pp. 56-64.]
(1995-02-09)
2. Argument, Basic value, C?.
An abstract machine for implementation of functional languages and its intermediate code.
[P. Koopman, "Functional Programs as Executable Specifications", 1990].
(1995-02-09)

RUDIMENTI. ARMY BATTLE COMMAND SYSTEM. ARMY BATTLEFIELD COMMAND SYSTEMS. ABCS