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2 definitions found From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Alps n : a large mountain system in south-central Europe; scenic beauty and winter sports make them a popular tourist attraction [syn: {Alps}, {the Alps}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: ALPS1. 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)
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