paradigm

n 1: systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word

2: a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good

breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good

father" [syn: {prototype}, {epitome}, {image}]

3: the generally accepted perspective of a particular

discipline at a given time; "he framed the problem within

the psychoanalytic paradigm"

Paradise

Paradise is a subsystem (a set of packages) developed to

implement inter-processes, inter-tasks and inter-machine

communication for {Ada} programs under {Unix}. This subsystem

gives the user full access to files, {pipe}s, {socket}s (both

Unix and {Internet}) and {pseudo-device}s.

Paradise has been ported to {Sun}, {DEC}, {Sony MIPS},

{Verdex} compiler, DEC compiler, {Alsys}/{Systeam} compiler.

{Version 2.0 of the library

(ftp://cnam.cnam.fr/pub/Ada/Paradise)}. E-mail:

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(1992-09-30)