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gambit
Chess an opening move in which a chessman, usually a pawn, is sacrificed to secure an advantageous position
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Gambit
(language)A variant of Scheme R3.99 supporting the future
construct of Multilisp by Marc Feeley
<feeley@iro.umontreal.ca>. Implementation includes optimising
compilers for Macintosh (with Toolbox and built-in editor)
and Motorola 680x0 Unix systems and HP300, BBN
GP100 and NeXT. Version 2.0 conforms to the IEEE
Scheme standard.
Gambit used PVM as its intermediate language.
ftp://acorn.cs.brandeis.edu/dist, ftp://ftp.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/amiga/fish/f7/ff764/Gambit_Terp. ftp://ftp.iro.umontreal.ca/pub/parallele/gambit/.
Mailing list: gambit@trex.umontreal.ca.
Gambit used PVM as its intermediate language.
ftp://acorn.cs.brandeis.edu/dist, ftp://ftp.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/amiga/fish/f7/ff764/Gambit_Terp. ftp://ftp.iro.umontreal.ca/pub/parallele/gambit/.
Mailing list: gambit@trex.umontreal.ca.
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