TAO (language) 1. A Lisp dialect with concurrency, object-orientation and logic.
["Concurrent Programming in TAO - Practice and Experience", I. Takeuchi in Parallel Lisp: Languages and Systems, T. Ito et al eds, LNCS 441, Springer 1989, pp. 271-299]. Last updated: 2006-02-06
2. A programming language for APE/Quadrics parallel computers, largely modelled on FORTRAN and evolved from the even more primitive APESE language. TAO is particularly hard to work with, due to the lack of systematics, poor documentation and a primitive compiler. [Reference? Dates?] Last updated: 2006-02-06