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)