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CRISP
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1.CRISP - A Lisp-like language and compiler for the IBM 370 written by Jeff Barnett of SDC, Santa Monica, CA, USA in the early 1970s. It generalised Lisp's two-part cons nodes to n-part nodes.
2.crisp - (Or "discrete") The opposite of "fuzzy".


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The potted plants and decorative trees that have made their way into my many apartments have known the perils of over-watering and drought, burned to a crisp in sunny windows or dying of jaundice in dark corners.
That's a far cry from what happened in Minghella's best-known film, ``The English Patient,'' where illicit lovers played by Kristin Scott Thomas and Ralph Fiennes wound up wasting away in a desert cave and burned to a crisp, respectively.
Unfortunately, he lost the place the day before Thanksgiving, when an art gallery above it caught fire and the whole building was burned to a crisp.
 
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