'''Abstract State Machine Language''' ('''AsmL''') is a [[programming language]] based on the [[Abstractabstract Statestate Machinesmachine]]s<ref>
Omar Badreddin (2010) "[[Umple]]: a model-oriented programming language." ''Software Engineering, 2010 ACM/IEEE 32nd International Conference on. Vol. 2''. IEEE, 2010.</ref> [[formal method]] and developed by [[Microsoft]].<ref>Chen, Kai, Janos Sztipanovits, and Sandeep Neema. "Toward a semantic anchoring infrastructure for ___domain-specific modeling languages." Proceedings of the 5th ACM international conference on Embedded software. ACM, 2005.</ref> AsmL is a [[functional programming|functional language]] (which are commonly used in academic research).<ref>Grieskamp, Wolfgang, et al. "Testable use cases in the abstract state machine language." Quality Software, 2001. Proceedings. Second Asia-Pacific Conference on. IEEE, 2001.</ref>
XASM is an open source implementation of the language.
