summary

adj 1: performed speedily and without formality; "a summary

execution"; "summary justice" [syn: {drumhead}]

2: briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and

compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy";

"succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a

wide-ranging subject" [syn: {compendious}, {compact}, {succinct}]

n : writing that presents the main points in a concise form

[syn: {summarization}]

SUMMER

String manipulation and pattern matching language by Klint &

Sint at {CWI} in the late 1970s. It was recently used as the

input and implementation language for the {Dataflow Compiler

Project} at {CWI}.

["An Overview of the SUMMER Programming Language", Paul Klint,

7th POPL, ACM 1980, pp. 47-55].