Hermes
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Hermes
n 1: (Greek mythology) messenger and herald of the gods; god of
commerce and cunning and invention and theft; identified
with Roman Mercury
from
The 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
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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 language},
{strongly typed} and is a {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 tables}Hermes 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: <[email protected]>, Andy Lowry
<[email protected]>.
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)
from
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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