from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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].
(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?]
(2006-02-06)