oblique

adj 1: slanting or inclined in direction or course or

position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor

right-angular; "the oblique rays of the winter sun";

"acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles"; "the

axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its

base" [ant: {parallel}, {perpendicular}]

2: descended from a common ancestor but through different

lines; "cousins are collateral relatives"; "an indirect

descendant of the Stuarts" [syn: {collateral}, {indirect}]

[ant: {lineal}]

3: departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading; "used

devious means to achieve success"; "gave oblique answers

to direct questions"; "oblique political maneuvers" [syn:

{devious}]

4: used of movement; at an angle [syn: {crabwise}, {sideways}]

n : any grammatical case other than the nominative [syn: {oblique

case}] [ant: {nominative}]

Obliq

A small, statically scoped untyped language by Luca Cardelli,

1993. Obliq is {object-oriented}, higher order, concurrent,

and distributed. State is local to an address space, while

computation can migrate over the network. The distributed

computation mechanism is based on {Modula-3} network objects.

{(ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/Modula-3/contrib)}