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An acronym for Adventure LANguage, Alan is an authoring system designed to make it easier for people unfamiliar with programming to write IF, or text-adventure games. It was created by Thomas Nilsson and Göran Forslund in 1985 and is updated and maintained by Thomas Nilsson.

The language features a self-documenting, English-like syntax, possibly inspired by COBOL, and several built-in classes of objects commonly used in IF. Version three of the system is currently under development and it will allow users to create their own classes of objects and adds a few more programming constructs to the language.

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	An acronym for Adventure LANguage, Alan is an [[authoring system]] designed to make it easier for people unfamiliar with programming to write IF, or text-adventure games. It was created by [[Thomas Nilsson]] and [[Göran Forslund]] in 1985 and is updated and maintained by [[Thomas Nilsson]].		An acronym for Adventure LANguage, '''Alan''' is an [[authoring system]] designed to make it easier for people unfamiliar with programming to write IF, or text-adventure games. It was created by [[Thomas Nilsson]] and [[Göran Forslund]] in 1985 and is updated and maintained by [[Thomas Nilsson]].

	The language features a self-documenting, English-like syntax, possibly inspired by COBOL, and several built-in classes of objects commonly used in IF. Version three of the system is currently under development and it will allow users to create their own classes of objects and adds a few more programming constructs to the language.		The language features a self-documenting, English-like syntax, possibly inspired by COBOL, and several built-in classes of objects commonly used in IF. Version three of the system is currently under development and it will allow users to create their own classes of objects and adds a few more programming constructs to the language.