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babel [n]

1)	a confusion of voices and other sounds

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confusion

2)	(Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another

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tower_of_babel

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ziggurat babylon book_of_genesis

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

1. A subset of ALGOL 60, with many ALGOL W extensions.

["BABEL, A New Programming Language", R.S. Scowen, Natl Phys Lab UK, Report CCU7, 1969].

2. Mentioned in The Psychology of Computer Programming, G.M. Weinberg, Van Nostrand 1971, p.241.

3. A language based on higher-order functions and first-order logic.

["Graph-Based Implementation of a Functional Logic Language", H. Kuchen et al, Proc ESOP 90, LNCS 432, Springer 1990, pp.271-290].

["Logic Programming with Functions and Predicates: The Language BABEL", Moreno-Navarro et al, J Logic Prog 12(3) (Feb 1992)].

(1994-11-28)

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