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Line 1: {{Short description\|Programming language}} The '''Mouse''' (sometimes written as '''MOUSE''') programming language is a small computer [[programming language]] developed by Dr. Peter Grogono in the late 1970s and early 1980s.<ref name="grogono1">{{cite news \| url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1979-07/1979_07_BYTE_04-07_Automating_Eclipses#page mii/n197/mode/2up \| title=~~MOUSE~~Mouse / A Language for Microcomputers \| work=BYTE \| date=July 1979 \| accessdate=18 October 2013 \| author=Grogono, Peter \| pages=198–220}}</ref><ref name="byte198006">{{cite news \| url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1980-06/1980_06_BYTE_05-06_Inter_Computer_Communications#page/n243/mode/2up \| title=Comment and Correction for Mouse \| work=BYTE \| date=June 1980 \| accessdate=18 October 2013 \|author1=Lane, Tom \|author2=Grogono, Peter }}</ref><ref name="grogono2">Grogono, Peter. ''Mouse: A Language for Microcomputers''. 151 pages. Petrocelli Books, Inc.: 1983. {{ISBN\|0-89433-201-5}}.</ref> It was developed as an extension of an earlier language called MUSYS, which was used to control digital and analog devices in an electronic music studio. Mouse was originally intended as a small, efficient language for [[microcomputer]]s with limited memory. It is an interpreted, [[Stack-oriented ~~(data structure)~~programming\|stack]]-based]] language and uses [[Reverse Polish notation]]. To make an interpreter as easy as possible to implement, Mouse is designed so that a program is processed as a stream of characters, interpreted one character at a time. The elements of the Mouse language consist of a set of (mostly) one-character symbols, each of which performs a specific function (see table below). Since variable names are limited to one character, there are only 26 possible variables in Mouse (named A-Z). Integers and characters are the only available data types. Line 206: * [http://primepuzzle.com/mouse/mouse.html Mouse, the Language] * [http://mouse.davidgsimpson.com Mouse: Computer Programming Language] (includes source code for Mouse interpreters) * [~~http~~https://mouse.sourceforge.net/ Information on sourceforge.net] {{Authority control}}