meaning of babel
1. The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place.
2. Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.
3. BABEL 1. A subset of ALGOL 60, with many ALGOL W extensions. ["BABEL, A New Programming Language", R. S. Scowen, Natl Phys Lab UK, Report CCU7, 1969]. 2. Mentioned in The Psychology of Computer Programming, G. M. Weinberg, Van Nostrand 1971, p. 241. 3. A language based on higher-order functions and first-order logic. ["Graph-Based Implementation of a Functional Logic Language", H. Kuchen et al, Proc ESOP 90, LNCS 432, Springer 1990, pp. 271-290]. ["Logic Programming with Functions and Predicates: The Language BABEL", Moreno-Navarro et al, J Logic Prog 123 Feb 1992].
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