Alps

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Alps
       n : a large mountain system in south-central Europe; scenic
           beauty and winter sports make them a popular tourist
           attraction [syn: {the Alps}]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:



  ALPS
       
           1. An early interpreted {algebraic language} for
          the {Bendix G15} by Richard V. Andree of the {University of
          Oklahoma}.  ALPS is said to have preceded and influenced
          development of {BASIC}.
       
          Dale Peters  reports that in the summer
          of 1966 he attended the second year of an {NSF}-sponsored
          summer institute in mathematics and computing at the
          University of Oklahoma.  Richard Andree taught the computing
          class which mostly used the language GO-GO which was later
          renamed ALPS.  Andree, Harold Wiebe, Ralph Howenstein, and
          another grad student were changing the language frequently
          during the class, which was occasionally a little
          disorienting.  Dale believes it was used in the previous
          summer as well and that it was about this time that Kemeny
          (one of the designers of BASIC) saw it during a visit.
       
          2. A parallel {logic language}.
       
          ["Synchronization and Scheduling in ALPS Objects",
          P. Vishnubhotia, Proc 8th Intl Conf Distrib Com Sys, IEEE
          1988, pp. 256-264].
       
          (1994-11-24)