English

adj : of or relating to or characteristic of England or its

culture; "English histry"; "the English landed

aristocracy"; "English literature" [syn: {English}]

n 1: an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic

branch; the official language of Britain and the US and

most of the Commonwealth countries [syn: {English}, {English

language}]

2: the people of England [syn: {English}, {English people}, {the

English}]

3: the discipline that studies the English language and

literature [syn: {English}]

4: (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side

or releasing it with a sharp twist [syn: {English}, {side}]

Glish

Glish is an interpretive language for building loosely-coupled

distributed systems from modular, event-oriented programs.

Written by Vern Paxson . These programs are

written in conventional languages such as C, C::, or Fortran.

Glish scripts can create local and remote processes and

control their communication. Glish also provides a full,

array-oriented programming language (similar to {S}) for

manipulating binary data sent between the processes. In

general Glish uses a centralised communication model where

interprocess communication passes through the Glish

{interpreter}, allowing dynamic modification and rerouting of

data values, but Glish also supports point-to-point links

between processes when necessary for high performance.

Version 2.4.1 includes an {interpreter}, {C::} {class} library

and user manual. It requires C:: and there are ports to

{SunOS}, {Ultrix}, an {HP/UX} (rusty).

{(ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/glish/glish-2.4.1.tar.Z)}

["Glish: A User-Level Software Bus for Loosely-Coupled

Distributed Systems," Vern Paxson and Chris Saltmarsh,

Proceedings of the 1993 Winter USENIX Conference, San Diego,

CA, January, 1993].

(1993-11-01)