Ithaca

geographical name 1. city S central New York on Cayuga Lake population 29,287 2. (or Modern Greek Itháki) island W Greece in the Ionian Islands NE of Cephalonia area 37 square miles (96 square kilometers) • Ithacan adjective or noun

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Ithaca

An Esprit project to put a 4th generation object-oriented system to practical use in an industrial environment. The ITHACA environment offered an application support system incorporating advanced technologies in the fields of object-oriented programming, programming languages, databases, user interfaces and software development tools.

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