spile

n 1: a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into

the ground to provide support for a structure [syn: {pile},

{piling}, {stilt}]

2: used to close a hole in a barrel or flask [syn: {bung}]

PILE

1. Polytechnic's Instructional Language for Educators.

Similar in use to an enhanced PILOT, but structurally more

like Pascal with Awk-like associative arrays (optionally

stored on disk). Distributed to about 50 sites by Initial

Teaching Alphabet Foundation for Apple II and CP/M.

["A Universal Computer Aided Instruction System," Henry

G. Dietz & Ronald J Juels, Proc Natl Educ Computing Conf '83,

pp.279-282].

2. ["PILE _ A Language for Sound Synthesis",

P. Berg, Computer Music Journal 3.1, 1979].

(1999-06-04)