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Brilliant

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Brilliant - One of five pedagogical languages based on Markov algorithms, used in ["Nonpareil, a Machine Level Machine Independent Language for the Study of Semantics", B. Higman, ULICS Intl Report No ICSI 170, U London (1968)].

See also Diamond, Nonpareil, Pearl, Ruby.
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OF two Writers one was brilliant but indolent; the other though dull, industrious.
Fables by Aesop View in context
in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I me thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
An officer of the Cuirassier Life Guards, a handsome prince who everyone predicted would become aide-de-camp to the Emperor Nicholas I and have a brilliant career, left the service, broke off his engagement to a beautiful maid of honour, a favourite of the Empress's, gave his small estate to his sister, and retired to a monastery to become a monk.
Father Sergius by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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