1. True. A Lisp compiler by Johnathan A. Rees in 1982 at Yale University . T has static scope and is a near-superset of Scheme . Unix source is available. T is written in itself and compiles to efficient native code. Used as the basis for the Yale Haskell system. Maintained by David Kranz kranz@masala.lcs.mit.edu .
Current version: 3.1.
ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/systems/t3.1 .
A multiprocessing version of T is available ftp://masala.lcs.mit.edu/pub/mult .
Runs on Decstation , SPARC , Sun-3 , Vax under Unix , Encore , HP , Apollo , Macintosh under A/UX .
E-mail: t3-bugs@cs.yale.edu (bugs). E-mail: t-project@cs.yale.edu .
(1991-11-26)
["The T Manual", Johnathan A. Rees jar@zurich.ai.mit.edu et al, Yale U, 1984].
2. A functional language .
["T: A Simple Reduction Language Based on Combinatory Term Rewriting", Ida et al, Proc of Prog Future Generation Computers, 1988].
3. (lower case) The Lisp atom used to represent "true", among other things. "false" is represented using the same atom as an empty list, nil . This overloading of the basic constants of the language helps to make Lisp write-only code .
4. In transaction-processing circles, an abbreviation for "transaction".
5. (Purdue) An alternative spelling of " tee ".