Proper noun
OOPSLA
(computing) Acronym of Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications.
50 years of Lisp (1958–2008) has been celebrated at LISP50@OOPSLA. citation There are regular local user meetings in Boston, Vancouver, and Hamburg. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
The book was first made available to the public at the OOPSLA meeting held in Portland, Oregon, in October 1994. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet