cabbage

n 1: any of various types of cabbage [syn: {chou}]

2: informal terms for money [syn: {shekels}, {gelt}, {dough}, {bread},

{dinero}, {lucre}, {loot}, {pelf}, {moolah}, {kale}]

3: any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea

grown for their edible leaves or flowers [syn: {cultivated

cabbage}, {Brassica oleracea}]

v : make off with belongings of others [syn: {pilfer}, {purloin},

{pinch}, {abstract}, {snarf}, {swipe}, {hook}, {sneak},

{filch}, {nobble}, {lift}]

Babbage

The structured {assembly language} for the {General Electric

Company} 4xxx range of computers and their {OS4000} {operating

system}. It is strictly an assembler in that the generated

code is relatively predictable but it can be written in a

sufficiently structured manner, with indentation, control

statements, function and procedure calls, to make the

resultant source easy to read and manage. Even with this

visible structure however, it is important to remember that

the assembly of the statement is done left to right.

The British {videotext} system, {Prestel} is programmed in

Babbage.

[1980's article in Datamation].