code

n 1: a set of rules or principles or laws especially written ones

[syn: {codification}]

2: a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring

brevity or secrecy

3: (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or

instructions in a computer program or the set of such

instructions [syn: {computer code}]

v 1: attach a code to; "Code the pieces with numbers so that you

can identify them later"

2: convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the

message for security reasons" [syn: {encode}, {encipher},

{cipher}, {cypher}, {encrypt}, {inscribe}, {write in code}]

[ant: {decode}]

Tcode

Intermediate language used by the Spineless Tagless G-machine

(an abstract machine based on graph reduction) designed as a

target for compilation of non-strict functional languages.

"The Spineless tagless G- machine", S. Peyton Jones et al,

Fourth Intl Conf Func Prog Langs and Comp Arch pp.184-201, ACM

Sept 1989.