miry

adj : (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under

foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky

lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the

sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" [syn: {boggy},

{marshy}, {mucky}, {muddy}, {quaggy}, {sloughy}, {swampy}]

Mary

An extensible, machine-oriented superset of

{ALGOL68} developed by Mark Rain.

Mary is maintained (and used) by {Kvatro Telecom AS}.

Although dated, it still offers a nice strongly typed {3GL}

with {macros} but without most of {C}'s flaws.

It runs on {SPARC} and {x86} computers.

Hidden on the back cover of the manual: MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB

- COERCION IMPOSSIBLE.

["Mary Programmer's Reference Manual", M. Rain et al, R Unit,

Trondheim Norway, 1974].

["Operator Expressions in Mary", M. Rain, SIGPLAN Notices

8(1), Jan 1973].

(1998-11-10)