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  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
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  1.  A  language  by  M.E.  Lesk  for  formatting  tables,  implemented 
  as  a  {preprocessor}  to  {nroff}. 
 
  (1994-11-01) 
 
  2.  Table  Building  Language.  A  simple  language  by  Robert 
  Freiburghouse  of  {MIT}  which  combines  user-defined  actions 
  into  an  {abstract  machine}.  It  can  be  used  to  build 
  table-driven  predictive  {parser}s  and  {code  generator}s  in  the 
  {MULTICS}  {Fortran}  compiler  and  several  {PL/I}  compilers, 
  including  {VAX}-11  PL/I. 
 
  ["Engineering  A  Compiler:  VAX-11  Code  Generation  and 
  Optimisation",  P.  Anklam  et  al  Digital  Press  1977]. 
 
  (1994-11-01) 
 
 

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