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English Dictionary: Prometheus' by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Prometheus \Pro*me"the*us\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?], from [?] to
      have forethought for.] (Class. Myth.)
      The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by
      the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to
      have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire
      stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent
      Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture
      preyed upon his liver.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Prometheus
  
      A programmaing language geared for logic,
      mathematics, {AI}, and string, list and database processing.
      Prometheus runs on a variety of {platforms} from {Macintosh}
      to {MS-DOS}
  
      {Home (http://www.aard.tracor.com/Jason/Prometheus/)}.
  
      (1996-03-04)
  
  
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