<s>
MINC	B-Language
(	O
"	O
MINC	B-Language
is	O
not	O
C	B-Language
"	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
data	O
specification	O
language	O
written	O
in	O
the	O
mid-1980s	O
by	O
a	O
Princeton	O
University	O
graduate	O
student	O
named	O
Lars	O
Graf	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
contains	O
many	O
(	O
though	O
not	O
all	O
)	O
of	O
the	O
syntactical	O
capabilities	O
of	O
the	O
C	B-Language
programming	I-Language
language	I-Language
,	O
and	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
implement	O
simple	O
procedural	O
programs	O
that	O
can	O
be	O
executed	O
by	O
a	O
runtime	O
parser	B-Language
(	O
that	O
is	O
to	O
say	O
,	O
MINC	B-Language
does	O
not	O
need	O
to	O
be	O
compiled	O
in	O
any	O
way	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MINC	B-Language
continues	O
to	O
be	O
used	O
only	O
in	O
a	O
handful	O
of	O
programs	O
written	O
in	O
the	O
1980s	O
(	O
e.g.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
has	O
been	O
for	O
all	O
intents	O
and	O
purposes	O
superseded	O
by	O
modern	O
scripting	O
languages	O
such	O
as	O
Perl	B-Language
,	O
Python	B-Language
,	O
and	O
Tcl	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
