English Dictionary
desperation
n 1: a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out
badly; "they were rescued from despair at the last
minute" [syn: {despair}]
2: desperate recklessness; "it was a policy of desperation"
English Computing Dictionary
generation
An attempt to classify the degree of sophistication of
programming languages.
See {First generation language} -- {Fifth generation
language}.
(1995-06-15)