[mi-ran-duh; also, for 1, 4, Sp. mee-rahn-dah] 
| 1. | Fran⋅cis⋅co de [frahn-sees-kaw th e] , 1750–1816, Venezuelan revolutionist and patriot. |
| 2. | Astronomy. a moon of the planet Uranus. |
| 3. | daughter of Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest. |
| 4. | a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “to be admired.” |
| 5. | Law. of, pertaining to, or being upheld by the Supreme Court ruling (Miranda v. Arizona, 1966) requiring law-enforcement officers to warn a person who has been taken into custody of his or her rights to remain silent and to have legal counsel. |
| Mi·ran·da 1 (mə-rān'də) n. A satellite of Uranus. [After Miranda, daughter of the magician Prospero in The Tempest by William Shakespeare.] |
| Mi·ran·da 2 (mə-rān'də) adj. Of or relating to a warning given by police to a criminal suspect advising of the constitutional right against self-incrimination and of the right to have a lawyer present during any interrogation. [After Ernesto A. Miranda(1940?-1976), petitioner in the case of Miranda v. Arizona (1966).] |
Miranda language
(From the Latin for "admirable", also the heroine of Shakespeare's "Tempest") A lazy purely functional programming language and interpreter designed by David Turner of the University of Kent in the early 1980s and implemented as a product of his company, Research Software Limited. Miranda combines the main features of KRC and SASL with strong typing similar to that of ML.
It features terse syntax using the offside rule for indentation. The type of an expression is inferred from the source by the compiler but explicit type declarations are also allowed. It has nested pattern-matching, list comprehensions and modules. It uses operator sections rather than lambda abstractions. User types are algebraic, and in early versions could be constrained by laws.
It is implemented using SKI combinator reduction. Originally implemented for Unix, there are versions for most UNIX-like platforms including Intel PC under Linux. The KAOS operating system is written entirely in Miranda.
Translators from Miranda to Haskell (mira2hs) and to LML (mira2lml) are available at (http://foldoc.org/pub/misc/). Non-commercial near-equivalents of Miranda include Miracula and Orwell.
(http://miranda.org.uk/).
[ A Non Strict Functional Language with Polymorphic Types" (http://miranda.org.uk/nancy.html), D.A. Turner, in Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture, LNCS 201, Springer 1985].
["An Overview of Miranda", D. A. Turner, SIGPLAN Notices, 21(12):158--166, December 1986].
["Functional Programming with Miranda", Ian Holyer, Pitman Press 0-273-03453-7].
(2007-03-22)
Miranda
the beautiful and naive daughter of Prospero, the exiled rightful duke of Milan, in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Having grown up on an island with only her father and Caliban for company, she is overwhelmed when she finally sees other humans, and she responds rapturously:How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in 't!
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