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for CONNIVER
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Conniver \Con*niv"er\, n.
One who connives.
[1913 Webster]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
37 Moby Thesaurus words for "conniver":
Benedict Arnold, Brutus, Judas, Judas Iscariot, Machiavellian,
Quisling, archtraitor, betrayer, cockatrice, coconspirator,
conspirator, conspirer, counterplotter, double agent,
double-crosser, double-dealer, exploiter, finagler, informer,
intrigant, intriguer, machinator, maneuverer, operator,
opportunist, plotter, quisling, rat, schemer, serpent, snake,
timeserver, traitor, treasonist, trimmer, turncoat, wire-puller
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) :
CONNIVER
An artificial intelligence programming language for
automatic theorem proving from MIT. CONNIVER grew out of
PLANNER and was based on coroutines rather than
backtracking. It allowed multiple database contexts with
hypothetical assertions.
["The CONNIVER Reference Manual", D. McDermott & G.J. Sussman
, AI Memo 259, MIT AI Lab, 1973].
(1995-01-10)
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