Lingo (programming language)

Lingo is a verbose, object-oriented scripting language created by John H. Thompson for Adobe Director, the multimedia authoring tool formerly known as Macromedia Director. It was used to build desktop applications, interactive kiosks, CD-ROMs and Adobe Shockwave content, and it was the primary programming language of the Shockwave platform, which dominated the interactive multimedia market during the 1990s. Graphic adventure games written in it include The Journeyman Project, Total Distortion and Mia's Language Adventure, and hundreds of free online games were published on sites such as Miniclip and Shockwave.com. Lingo can build user interfaces and manipulate raster graphics, vector graphics and 3D graphics, with specialised syntax for image processing and for 3D objects, including meshes created on the fly.