ALPS

language 1. An early interpreted algebraic language for

the Bendix G15 by Richard V. Andree of the University ofOklahoma. ALPS is said to have preceded and influenced

development of BASIC.

Dale Peters [email protected] 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)