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opal 音標拼音: ['opəl] n. 蛋白石,貓眼石 蛋白石,貓眼石 opal n 1: a translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color; some varieties are used as gemstonesOpal \ O" pal\, n. [ L. opalus: cf. Gr. ?, Skr. upala a rock, stone, precious stone: cf. F. opale.] ( Min.) A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity. [ 1913 Webster] Note: The { precious opal} presents a peculiar play of colors of delicate tints, and is highly esteemed as a gem. One kind, with a varied play of color in a reddish ground, is called the { harlequin opal}. The { fire opal} has colors like the red and yellow of flame. { Common opal} has a milky appearance. { Menilite} is a brown impure variety, occurring in concretions at Menilmontant, near Paris. Other varieties are { cacholong}, { girasol}, { hyalite}, and { geyserite}. [ 1913 Webster] 1. A { DSP} language.
[" OPAL: A High Level Language and Environment for DSP boards
on PC", J. P. Schwartz et al, Proc ICASSP- 89, 1989].
2. The language of the { object- oriented database} { GemStone}.
[" Making Smalltalk a Database System", G. Copeland et al, Proc
SIGMOD' 84, ACM 1984, pp. 316- 325].
3. A { simulation} language with provision for { stochastic
variables}. An extension of { Autostat}.
[" C- E- I- R OPAL", D. Pilling, Internal Report,
C. E. I. R. Ltd. ( 1963)].
4. A language for compiler testing said to be used internally
by { DEC}.
5. A { functional programming} language designed at the
{ Technische Universitaet Berlin} as a testbed for the
development of { functional programs}. OPAL integrates
concepts from Algebraic Specification and Functional
Programming, which favour the ( formal) development of ( large)
production- quality software written in a { purely functional}
style.
The core of OPAL is a { strongly typed}, { higher- order},
{ strict} applicative language which belongs to the tradition
of { Hope} and { ML}. The algebraic flavour of OPAL is visible
in the syntactical appearance and in the preference of
{ parameterisation} to { polymorphism}.
OPAL supports: { information hiding} - each language unit is
divided into an interface ( signature) and an implementation
part; selective import; { parameterised modules}; free
constructor { views} on { sorts}, which allow pattern- based
function definitions despite quite different implementations;
full { overloading} of names; puristic scheme language with no
{ built- in} data types ( except { Booleans} and denotations).
OPAL and its predecessor OPAL- 0 have been used for some time
at the Technische Universitaet Berlin in CS courses and for
research into optimising compilers for applicative languages.
The OPAL compiler itself is writte entirely in OPAL.
An overview is given in " OPAL: Design And Implementation of an
Algebraic Programming Language".
{( http:// cs. tu- berlin. de/~ opal/)}.
{( ftp:// ftp. cs. tu- berlin. de/ pub/ local/ uebb/ papers/ DesignImplOpal. ps. gz)}.
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