fable

n 1: a deliberately false or improbable account [syn: {fabrication},

{fiction}]

2: a short moral story (often with animal characters) [syn: {parable},

{allegory}, {apologue}]

3: a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

[syn: {legend}]

ABLE

A simple language for accountants.

["ABLE, The Accounting Language, Programming and Reference

Manual," Evansville Data Proc Center, Evansville, IN, Mar

1975].

[Listed in SIGPLAN Notices 13(11):56 (Nov 1978)].

(1994-11-08)