English Dictionary
◊ NEWBORN
newborn
adj 1: recently borne; "a newborn infant"
2: having just or recently arisen or come into existence; "new
nations"; "with newborn fears" [syn: {newly arisen}, {new-sprung(a)}]
n : a baby from birth to four weeks [syn: {neonate}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ NEWTON
Newton
1. (Named after Isaac Newton (1642-1727)). Rapin et al, Swiss
Federal Inst Tech, Lausanne 1981. General purpose expression
language, syntactically ALGOL-like, with object-oriented and
functional features and a rich set of primitives for
concurrency. Used for undergraduate teaching at Lausanne
(EPFL).
Versions: Newton 2.6 for VAX/VMS and Newton 1.2 for
DEC-Alpha/{OSF}-1.
E-mail: J. Hulaas .
{(ftp://ellc4.epfl.ch /pub/languages/Newton)}.
["Procedural Objects in Newton", Ch. Rapin, SIGPLAN Notices
24(9) (Sep 1989)].
["The Newton Language", Ch. Rapin et al, SIGPLAN Notices
16(8):31-40 (Aug 1981)].
["Programming in Newton", Wuetrich and Menu, EPFL 1982].
2. {Apple Newton}.
(2000-08-29)