alphard

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alphard - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Alphard
  
     <language> (Named after the brightest star in Hydra) A
     Pascal-like language developed by Wulf, Shaw and London of
     CMU in 1974.  Alphard supports data abstraction using the
     'form', which combines a specification and an implementation.
  
     ["Abstraction and Verification in Alphard: Defining and
     Specifying Iteration and Generators", Mary Shaw, CACM
     20(8):553-563, Aug 1977].
  
     (1995-05-10)