English Dictionary
◊ UMBER
umber
adj : of the color of any of various natural brown earth pigments
n 1: an earth pigment
2: a medium to dark brown color [syn: {chocolate}, {coffee}, {deep
brown}, {burnt umber}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN AMBER?
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)
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