omega

n 1: the ending of a series or sequence; "the Alpha and the

Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the

end"--Revelation [syn: {Z}]

2: the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet

Omega

1. A {prototype}-based {object-oriented}

language from Austria.

["Type-Safe Object-Oriented Programming with Prototypes - The

Concept of Omega", G. Blaschek, Structured Programming

12:217-225, 1991].

2. A successor to {TeX} extended to handle the

{Unicode} character set.

{(http://www.ens.fr/omega/)}.

(1997-11-20)