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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)}.

(1995-02-16)