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FLIP

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flip
1. a somersault, esp one performed in the air, as in a dive, rather than from a standing position
2. same as nog

FLIP [flip]
(naval architecture)

1.FLIP - An early assembly language on the G-15.

[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
2.FLIP - ["FLIP User's Manual", G. Kahn, TR 5, INRIA 1981].
3.FLIP - Formal LIst Processor.

An early language for pattern-matching on Lisp structures, similar to CONVERT.

["FLIP, A Format List Processor", W. Teitelman, Memo MAC-M-263, MIT 1966].


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I boarded her once at midnight somewhere off the Patagonian coast, and drank good flip down in the forecastle.
Micawber, 'in a little more flip,' for we had been having some already, 'the memory of my papa and mama.
From the topmost peak of reason James teaches to cease reasoning and to have faith that all is well and will be well--the old, oh, ancient old, acrobatic flip of the metaphysicians whereby they reasoned reason quite away in order to escape the pessimism consequent upon the grim and honest exercise of reason.
 
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