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lucid
Psychiatry of or relating to a period of normality between periods of insane or irresponsible behaviour
1.LUCID - Early query language, ca. 1965, System Development Corp, Santa Monica, CA. [Sammet 1969, p.701].
2.LUCID - A family of dataflow languages descended from ISWIM, lazy but first-order.

Ashcroft & Wadge <wwadge@csr.uvic.ca>, 1981.

They use a dynamic demand driven model. Statements are regarded as equations defining a network of processors and communication lines, through which the data flows. Every data object is thought of as an infinite stream of simple values, every function as a filter. Lucid has no data constructors such as arrays or records. Iteration is simulated with 'is current' and 'fby' (concatenation of sequences). Higher-order functions are implemented using pure dataflow and no closures or heaps.

["Lucid: The Dataflow Language" by Bill Wadge <wwadge@csr.UVic.CA> and Ed Ashcroft, c. 1985]. ["Lucid, the Dataflow Programming Language", W. Wadge, Academic Press 1985].


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What I've seen would have made YOU so; but it has only made me more lucid, made me get hold of still other things.
Turn Of The Screw by James, Henry View in context
But though Napoleon knew that de Beausset had to say something of this kind, and though in his lucid moments he knew it was untrue, he was pleased to hear it from him.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Instead of moving, you merely exercise some magic art of vanishing and returning to sight; and instead of any lucid description of your new World, you simply tell me the numbers and sizes of some forty of my retinue, facts known to any child in my capital.
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