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{{Short description|Programming language and IDE for interactive fiction}}

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{{Infobox programming language

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In 2006, TADS received a major overhaul with the release of TADS 3, which is a complete rewrite of the TADS engine, only retaining the platform-dependent code to ease [[porting]]. TADS 3 uses a language with a syntax that resembles [[C++]] and [[Java (programming language)|Java]]. It has many new features, such as efficient dynamic objects (with automatic [[garbage collection (computer science)|garbage collection]]), structured [[exception handling|exceptions]], native [[UTF-8]] strings, and many useful function classes.

The TADS 3 [[compiler]] and [[interpreter (computing)|interpreter]] have been ported to the [[DOS]], [[Mac (computer)|Macintosh]] and [[Unix]] [[platform (computing)|platforms]]. Several TADS 3 games have been released.

==TADS games==

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* [[Interactive fiction#Development systems]], lists software similar to TADS

* [[Inform]] The other leading IF development system

* [[Hugo_Hugo (programming_languageprogramming language)|Hugo]] The Hugo development system

==References==