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The '''Mouse programming language''' is a small computer [[programming language]] developed by Dr. Peter Grogono in the late 1970s and early 1980s.<ref name="grogono1">Grogono,{{cite Peternews | url=http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1979-07/1979_07_BYTE_04-07_Automating_Eclipses#page/n197/mode/2up "| title=Mouse: / A Language for Microcomputers", ''Byte'',| work=BYTE | date=July 1979 | accessdate=18 October 2013 | author=Grogono, pp.Peter 198ff.| pages=198-220}}</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 (data structure)|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.