Orca
[awr-kuh] /ˈɔr kə/
noun
1.
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
/ˈɔːkə/
noun (pl) orcas, orca
1.
a killer whale
n.
“killer whale,” introduced as a generic term for the species by 1841, from earlier use in scientific names, from Latin orca “cetacean, a kind of whale.” Earlier in English, orc, ork “large whale” (c.1590), from French orque, had been used vaguely of sea monsters (see orc).
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1986. Similar to Modula-2, but with support for distributed programming using shared data objects, like Linda. A ‘graph’ data type removes the need for pointers. Version for the Amoeba OS, comes with Amoeba. “Orca: A Language for Distributed Processing”, H.E. Bal [email protected] et al, SIGPLAN Notices 25(5):17-24 (May 1990).
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