camber

n 1: a slight convexity (as of the surface of a road)

2: a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is

higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of

centrifugal force [syn: {bank}, {cant}]

3: the alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle closer

together at the bottom than at the top

v : curve upward in the middle

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)