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sting
1. a skin wound caused by the poison injected by certain insects or plants
2. pain caused by or as if by the sting of a plant or animal
3. a sharp pointed organ, such as the ovipositor of a wasp, by which poison can be injected into the prey
4. Slang a trap set up by the police to entice a person to commit a crime and thereby produce evidence
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STING
A parallel dialect of Scheme intended to serve as a
high-level operating system for symbolic programming
languages. First-class threads and processors and
customisable scheduling policies.
E-mail: <suresh@research.nj.dec.com>.
["A Customizable Substrate for Concurrent Languages", S. Jagannathan et al, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 1992].
E-mail: <suresh@research.nj.dec.com>.
["A Customizable Substrate for Concurrent Languages", S. Jagannathan et al, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 1992].
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