calibre

n 1: a degree or grade of excellence or worth: "the quality of

students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber" [syn:

{quality}, {caliber}]

2: diameter of a tube or gun barrel [syn: {bore}, {caliber}]

Caliban

A {declarative} annotation language for controlling the

partitioning and placement of the evaluation of expressions in

a distributed {functional language}. Designed by Paul Kelly

, {Imperial College}.

["Functional Programming for Loosely-coupled Multiprocessors",

P. Kelly, Pitman/MIT Press, 1989].

(1995-01-11)