Croma
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- Croma is also the Italian name for an eighth noteEighth notethumb|180px|right|Figure 1. An eighth note with stem facing up, an eighth note with stem facing down, and an eighth rest.thumb|right|180px|Figure 2. Four eighth notes beamed together....
- CromāCromāCromā is an Indian retail chain for consumer electronics and durables. Tata Group company Infiniti Retail runs Cromā stores in India. Presently, there are a total of 63 Cromā and 5 Cromā Zip stores in India...
is an Indian Consumer electronics retailer
Croma is a dialect of Lisp
Lisp programming language
Lisp is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized syntax. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today; only Fortran is older...
created by the 2005 Irish Young Scientist of the Year, Patrick Collison
Patrick Collison
Patrick Collison , is an Irish scientist and entrepreneur from County Limerick. He was the winner of the 41st Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005 at the age of sixteen. He was also the individual runner-up at the 40th Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition.-Early life:Patrick...
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This language went on to take second place at the 17th European Contest for Young Scientists in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
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The underlying structure has been rewritten in C
C (programming language)
C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....
and Erlang
Erlang programming language
Erlang is a general-purpose concurrent, garbage-collected programming language and runtime system. The sequential subset of Erlang is a functional language, with strict evaluation, single assignment, and dynamic typing. For concurrency it follows the Actor model. It was designed by Ericsson to...
-style multiprocessing has also been added. First class macros have been dropped from the features of Croma.