- Hot Soup Processor
Infobox programming language
name = Hot Soup Processor
paradigm =
year = 1996
designer =
developer = ONION software
latest_release_version = 3.1
latest_release_date =August 1 2007
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latest_test_date =
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operating_system = Windows
license =
website = http://hsp.tv/Hot Soup Processor (commonly abbreviated "HSP") is a
programming language fromJapan that was originally developed in 1994. It was originally based onBASIC , but has diverged significantly from those roots over the years. It isfreeware as of 1996, and now isopen source (OpenHSP) under theBSD licenses . HSP is used to teach programming in Japanese schools, and because it is freeware, it was a popular programming language fordoujin soft in the late 1990s.Features
Hot Soup Processor is a
procedural language , and includes the following features:
*Very brief and simple syntax, ideal for beginning programmers
*noline numbering
*non-case-sensitive
*all variables are global
*name space s
*Originally designed to compile Windows executables, but Mac classic andLinux ports exist as well, and compiling to .com files is also possible
*Can use Windows DLLs andWindows API
*includes apreprocessor
*can use standard BASIC syntax as well as its own proprietary syntaxExample code
mes "Hello World!"stopExternal links
* [http://hsp.tv/ HSPTV!, new Hot Soup Processor official website (in Japanese)]
* [http://www.onionsoft.net/hsp/ old Hot Soup Processor official website (in Japanese)]
* [http://users.csolve.net/~keiko/HSP/ HSP for English]
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