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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  UFO 
  n  :  an  (apparently)  flying  object  whose  nature  is  unknown; 
  especially  those  considered  to  have  extraterrestrial 
  origins  [syn:  {unidentified  flying  object},  {UFO},  {flying 
  saucer}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  UFO 
 
    (United  Functions  and  Objects)  A  hybrid 
  {functional}  and  {object-oriented}  language  designed  by  John 
  Seargant  at  {Manchester  University}  for  general-purpose 
  parallel  computation. 
 
  To  a  first  approximation,  UFO  is  a  strict,  higher-order 
  functional  language  with  an  object-oriented  type  system,  and 
  strong  support  for  numeric  computation  in  the  form  of 
  SISAL-style  arrays  and  loops.  Parallelism  is  implicit,  and 
  applies  at  various  different  levels  of  granularity,  thereby 
  facilitating  implementations  on  a  wide  range  of  parallel 
  architectures. 
 
  It  is  planned  to  run  it  on  a  64  processor  {KSR}  machine. 
 
  (1996-08-22)




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