chamber

n 1: a natural or artificial enclosed space

2: an enclosed volume (as the aqueous chamber of the eyeball or

the chambers of the heart)

3: a room where a judge transacts business

4: a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial

assembly; "the upper chamber is the senate"

5: a room used primarily for sleeping [syn: {bedroom}, {sleeping

room}, {bedchamber}]

v : place in a chamber

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)