edition

n 1: the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is

published

2: all of the identical copies of something offered to the

public at the same time; "the first edition appeared in

1920" or "it was too late for the morning edition" or

"they issued a limited edition of Bach recordings"

3: an issue of a newspaper; "he read it in yesterday's edition

of the Times"

Edison

1. (Named after the American inventor Thomas Edison

(1847-1931))

A simplified Pascal by Per Brinch Hansen with {modules} and

{concurrency} (cobegin/coend).

["Edison - A Multiprocessor Language", P. Brinch Hansen, CS

Dept, USC, Sep 1980].

["Programming a Personal Computer", Brinch Hansen, P-H 1977].

2. A language which adds an {OPS5}-like {rete}-based

{production system} system to {C}. It is implemented as a {C}

{preprocessor}.

["Edison, A Unix and C Friendly Rete Based Production System",

B. Thirion, SIGPLAN Notices 27(1):75-84 (Jan 1992)].

(1994-12-08)