From the website at transition.turbulenc.org,
“[HTML and XML] allow us to write code that make up the internet as we know it today. But like it or not, the internet is boring and dumb.] A.B.S.M.L. (pronounced ABSML) is different because it is a language which writes itself, thereby making the internet interesting and smart. ABSML could be considered a text generator, but it’s much more sophisticated than that.”
Check out the screen saver on the site: flying toast and toasters with wings.
A.B.S.M.L. was used to supply the brain’s of James Chimpton, a robotic chimpaneze who interviews artists. Watch Chimpton work, inside the artist’s studio.
See also Turbulence.org, supporters of net art.