orca
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (1)
- predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seasSynonyms: killer whalekillergrampussea wolfOrcinus orca
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Orca
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1986. Similar to Modula-2, but with support for distributed programming using shared data objects, like Linda. A 'graph' data type removes the need for pointers. Version for the Amoeba OS, comes with Amoeba. "Orca: A Language for Distributed Processing", H.E. Bal <bal@cs.vu.nl> et al, SIGPLAN Notices 25(5):17-24 (May 1990).