realism

n 1: art and literature that represents events and social

conditions as they actually are (without idealization)

2: the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring

practicality and literal truth

3: the state of being actual or real: "the reality of his

situation slowly dawned on him" [syn: {reality}, {realness}]

[ant: {unreality}]

4: the philosophical doctrine that physical object continue to

exist when not perceived [syn: {naive realism}]

5: an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and

writers strove for detailed realistic and factual

description [syn: {naturalism}]

6: the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist

independent of their names [syn: {Platonism}]

RefLisp

A {Lisp} {interpreter} by Bill Birch of {Bull}, UK,

with {shallow-binding} and {dynamic scope}. Use of {reference

counting} makes it suitable for experimenting with {real-time}

and {graphical user interface}s. {Common Lisp} compatibility

{macro}s are provided, and most of the examples in "Lisp" by

Winston & Horn have been run on RefLisp. RefLisp makes no

distinction between symbol-values and function-values, so a

symbol can be either but not both. There are Lisp {module}s

for {lexical scope} and for running {indefinite extent}

{Scheme} programs.

Version 2.67 ("Last Update for a While", the author is

emigrating to Australia) includes an interpreter,

documentation, examples and a profiler. It runs under

{MS-DOS} ({CGA}/{EGA}/{VGA}) and {AIX}.

{(ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mkant/Public/Lisp/implementa