English Dictionary
◊ NARY
nary
adj : (used with singular count nouns) colloquial for `not a' or
`not one' or `never a'; "heard nary a sound" [syn: {nary(a)}]
 narwhal  narwhale  nary  nasa  nasal 
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN MARY?
Mary
An extensible, machine-oriented superset of
{ALGOL68} developed by Mark Rain.
Mary is maintained (and used) by {Kvatro Telecom AS}.
Although dated, it still offers a nice strongly typed {3GL}
with {macros} but without most of {C}'s flaws.
It runs on {SPARC} and {x86} computers.
Hidden on the back cover of the manual: MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB
- COERCION IMPOSSIBLE.
["Mary Programmer's Reference Manual", M. Rain et al, R Unit,
Trondheim Norway, 1974].
["Operator Expressions in Mary", M. Rain, SIGPLAN Notices
8(1), Jan 1973].
(1998-11-10)