hermes
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hermes - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Hermes \Her"mes\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.]
1. (Myth.) See Mercury.
[1913 Webster]
Note: Hermes Trismegistus [Gr. 'Ermh^s trisme`gistos, lit.,
Hermes thrice greatest] was a late name of Hermes,
especially as identified with the Egyptian god Thoth.
He was the fabled inventor of astrology and alchemy.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Arch[ae]ology) Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to
Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in
some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a
quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body
belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other
parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures,
though often representing Hermes, were used for other
divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of
human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue,
under Terminal. Hermetic
hermes - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
Hermes
n 1: (Greek mythology) messenger and herald of the gods; god of
commerce and cunning and invention and theft; identified
with Roman Mercury
hermes - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :
Hermes
<language> An experimental, very high level, integrated
language and system from the IBM Watson Research Centre,
produced in June 1990. It is designed for implementation of
large systems and distributed applications, as well as for
general-purpose programming. It is an imperative, strongly typed
and process-oriented successor to NIL.
Hermes hides distribution and heterogeneity from the
programmer. The programmer sees a single abstract machine
containing processes that communicate using calls or sends.
The compiler, not the programmer, deals with the complexity
of data structure layout, local and remote communication, and
interaction with the operating system. As a result, Hermes
programs are portable and easy to write. Because the
programming paradigm is simple and high level, there are many
opportunities for optimisation which are not present in
languages which give the programmer more direct control over
the machine.
Hermes features threads, relational tablesHermes is,
typestate checking, capability-based access and dynamic configuration
.
Version 0.8alpha patchlevel 01 runs on RS/6000, Sun-4,
NeXT, IBM-RT/BSD4.3 and includes a bytecode compiler,
a bytecode->C compiler and run-time support.
0.7alpha for Unix (ftp://software.watson.ibm.com/pub/hermes)
.
E-mail: <hermes-request@watson.ibm.com>, Andy Lowry
<lowry@watson.ibm.com>.
Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.lang.hermes.
["Hermes: A Language for Distributed Computing". Strom,
Bacon, Goldberg, Lowry, Yellin, Yemini. Prentice-Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 1991. ISBN: O-13-389537-8].
(1992-03-22)
hermes - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :
HERMES
Heuristic Emergency Response Management Expert System (XPS)
hermes - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :
Hermes
Mercury, a Roman Christian (Rom. 16:14).
hermes - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "Hermes":
Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ate,
Athena, Bacchus, Ceres, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter,
Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Eros, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother,
Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion,
Iris, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur,
Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore,
Kronos, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus,
Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Paul Revere,
Persephassa, Persephone, Pheidippides, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo,
Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Tellus,
Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, carrier, commercialism, commissionaire,
courier, diplomatic courier, emissary, estafette, express,
go-between, industrialism, mercantilism, message-bearer, messenger,
nuncio, post, postboy, postrider, runner
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