Machiavelli

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Machiavelli
    n 1: a statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central
         government (1469-1527) [syn: {Machiavelli}, {Niccolo
         Machiavelli}]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Machiavelli

   An extension of {Standard ML} developed by Peter Buneman &
   Atsushi Ohori of the {University of Pennsylvania} in 1989,
   based on {orthogonal persistence}.

   ["Database Programming in Machiavelli: A Polymorphic Language
   with Static Type Inference", A. Ohori, Proc SIGMOD Conf, ACM,
   June 1989].

   (1995-02-21)