English Dictionary
◊ DRAGOON
dragoon
n : a member of a European military unit formerly composed of
heavily armed cavalrymen
v : compel by threatening [syn: {railroad}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DRAGOON
DRAGOON
A {distributed}, {concurrent}, {object-oriented}
{Ada}-based language developed in the {Esprit} {DRAGON}
project by Colin Atkinson at {Imperial College} in 1989 (Now
at University of Houston, Clear Lake). DRAGOON supports
object-oriented programming for {embeddable systems} and is
presently implemented as an Ada {preprocessor}.
["Object-Oriented Reuse, Concurrency and Distribution: An
Ada-Based Approach", C. Atkinson, A-W 1991, ISBN
0-2015-6-5277].
(1999-11-22)