symbolic optimal assembly program

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symbolic optimal assembly program - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program
  
     <language> (SOAP) The IBM 650's assembly language.
     "Optimal" refers to rearranging instructions on slowly
     rotating drum memory.
  
     Versions: SOAP I, SOAP II, CASE SOAP III.
  
     [Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959].
  
     (1994-11-04)