soup

n 1: liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock

often containing pieces of solid food

2: (informal) any composition having a consistency suggestive

of soup

3: (informal) an unfortunate situation; "we're in the soup now"

v : dope a racehorse

SOAP

Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program. 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)