rambler

n 1: a person who takes long walks in the country

2: a person whose speech or writing is not well organized

Amber

1. A {functional programming} language which adds

{CSP}-like {concurrency}, {multiple inheritance} and

{persistence} to {ML} and generalises its type system. It is

similar to {Galileo}. Programs must be written in two type

faces, roman and italics! It has both {static types} and

{dynamic types}.

There is an implementation for {Macintosh}.

["Amber", L. Cardelli, TR Bell Labs, 1984].

2. An {object-oriented} distributed language based on a

subset of {C::}, developed at {Washington University} in the

late 1980s.

(1994-12-08)