English Dictionary
◊ PILES
piles
n : a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends" [syn: {tons},
{dozens}, {heaps}, {lots}, {scores}, {stacks}, {loads},
{rafts}, {slews}, {wads}, {oodles}, {gobs}, {scads}, {lashings}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN PILE?
PILE
1. Polytechnic's Instructional Language for Educators.
Similar in use to an enhanced PILOT, but structurally more
like Pascal with Awk-like associative arrays (optionally
stored on disk). Distributed to about 50 sites by Initial
Teaching Alphabet Foundation for Apple II and CP/M.
["A Universal Computer Aided Instruction System," Henry
G. Dietz & Ronald J Juels, Proc Natl Educ Computing Conf '83,
pp.279-282].
2. ["PILE _ A Language for Sound Synthesis",
P. Berg, Computer Music Journal 3.1, 1979].
(1999-06-04)