tbl

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

  Tbl
  
     1. A language by M.E. Lesk for formatting tables, implemented
     as a preprocessor to nroff.
  
     (1994-11-01)
  
     2. Table Building Language.  A simple language by Robert
     Freiburghouse of MIT which combines user-defined actions
     into an abstract machine.  It can be used to build
     table-driven predictive parsers and code generators in the
     MULTICS Fortran compiler and several PL/I compilers,
     including VAX-11 PL/I.
  
     ["Engineering A Compiler: VAX-11 Code Generation and
     Optimisation", P. Anklam et al, Digital Press 1977].
  
     (1994-11-01)