NIL is acronymic for "New Implementation of Lisp" (or possibly "Nil Is Lisp"). It is intended to be a modernization of the programming language LISP suitable in design for implementation on any of the current generation of large-address-space, low-cost computers; and maximally upward-compatible with MACLlSP, the dialect of LISP developed at the M.I.T Laboratory for Computer Science, and Artific...

We present the “big-step” operational semantics of a small programming language NIL (Natural Imperative Language) in definite clauses, thus building on the fixpoint semantics of logic programs. NIL operates on a state which is just a sequence of counters. As basic statements NIL has incrementation, decrementation and test for null. NIL allows for sequential composition and non-deterministic cho...

BACKGROUND Nonselective nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibition has detrimental effects in sepsis because of inhibition of the physiologically important endothelial NOS (eNOS). The authors hypothesized that selective inducible NOS (iNOS) inhibition would maintain eNOS vasodilation but prevent acetylcholine- and bradykinin-mediated vasoconstriction caused by lipopolysaccharide-induced endothelial...