reed

n 1: tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems

especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites

2: 1851-1902 [syn: {Reed}, {Walter Reed}]

3: a thin strip of stiff material that is fitted into the

mouthpiece of woodwind instruments and that vibrates to

produce a tone when air streams over it

4: a musical instrument that sounds by means of a reed [syn: {beating-reed

instrument}]

Red

(Or "REDL") A language proposed by {Intermetrics} to meet the

{Ironman} requirements which led to {Ada}.

["On the RED Language Submitted to the DoD", E.W. Dijkstra,

SIGPLAN Notices 13(10):27 (Oct 1978)].

["RED Language Reference Manual", J. Nestor and M. van Deusen,

Intermetrics 1979].

(1995-01-19)