OOPSLA
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Meaning
OOPSLA
(computing) Acronym of Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications.
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50 years of Lisp (1958–2008) has been celebrated at LISP50@OOPSLA. citation There are regular local user meetings in Boston, Vancouver, and Hamburg.
History The book started at a birds of a feather (BoF) session at OOPSLA '90, "Towards an Architecture Handbook", run by Bruce Anderson, where Erich Gamma and Richard Helm met and discovered their common interest.
The book was first made available to the public at the OOPSLA meeting held in Portland, Oregon, in October 1994.
The UML began as an attempt by some of the major thought leaders in the community to define a standard language at the OOPSLA '95 Conference.