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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, Peter. "Mouse: A Language for Microcomputers", ''Byte'', July 1979, pp. 198ff.</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|microcomputers]] with limited memory. It is an
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.
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==Detailed Description==
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The language described here is the later version of Mouse, as described in the Mouse book<ref name="grogono2" />. This version is an extension of the language described in the original magazine article<ref name="grogono1" />.▼
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▲The language described here is the later version of Mouse, as described in the Mouse book<ref name="grogono2" />.
===Mouse Symbols===
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