RUSH

1. <language> An interactive dialect of PL/I, related to CPS, dated about 1966. The name is the abbreviation of "Remote Use of Shared Hardware".

["Introduction to RUSH", Allen-Babcock Computing 1969. Sammet 1969, p.309.]

2. <language> A high-level language that closely resembles Tcl but aimed to provide substantially faster execution. See An Introduction to the Rush Language by Adam Sah, Jon Blow, and Brian Dennis (1994).

(17 Dec 1996)