Meldc

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  MELDC
       
          A {reflective} {object-oriented} {concurrent} programming
          language developed in 1990 by the MELD Project of the
          Programming Systems Laboratory at {Columbia University}.
          MELDC is a redesign of {MELD} based on {C}.


       
          The core of the architecture is a {micro-kernel} (the MELDC
          kernel), which encapsulates a minimum set of entities that
          cannot be modelled as objects.  All components outside of the
          kernel are implemented as objects in MELDC itself and are
          modularised in the MELDC libraries.  MELDC is reflective in
          three dimensions: structural, computational and architectural.
          The structural reflection indicates that classes and
          meta-classes are objects, which are written in MELDC.  The
          computational reflection means that object behaviours can be
          computed and extended at run time.  The architectural
          reflection indicates that new features/properties
          (e.g. persistency and remoteness) can be constructed in MELDC.
       
          Version 2.0 runs on {Sun-4}/{SunOS} 4.1 and {DECstation} and
          {MIPS}/{Ultrix} 4.2.
       
          E-mail: Gail Kaiser .
       
          MELDC is available under licence from 
          and may not be used for commercial purposes.
       
          (1992-12-15)