gambit

n 1: an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the

speaker [syn: {ploy}]

2: a maneuver in a game or conversation [syn: {ploy}, {stratagem}]

3: a chess move early in the game in which the player

sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous

position

Gambit

A variant of {Scheme} R3.99 supporting the {future}

construct of {Multilisp} by Marc Feeley

. Implementation includes optimising

compilers for {Macintosh} (with Toolbox and built-in editor)

and {Motorola} {680x0} {Unix} systems and {HP300}, {BBN}

{GP100} and {NeXT}. Version 2.0 conforms to the {IEEE}

{Scheme} standard.

Gambit used {PVM} as its intermediate language.

{(ftp://acorn.cs.brandeis.edu/dist)},

{(ftp://ftp.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/amiga/fish/f7/ff764/Gambit_Terp)}.

{(ftp://ftp.iro.umontreal.ca/pub/parallele/gambit/)}.

Mailing list: gambit◊trex.umontreal.ca.

(1998-02-10)