Alex

n. male first name (form of Alexander); female first name (form of Alexandra)

Alex may refer to:Famous peopleAlexander the Great, Leader of the Greek empire of Macedonian descent, whose conquests ushered in the Hellenistic AgeAlex Gutterage the famous tennis playerAlexander Graham Bell, famous inventor, most well known for the invention of the telephoneAlex Cox, British film directorAlex George, botanistAlex Grey, artistAlexander Kapranos, singer for the Scottish band Franz FerdinandAlex Lifeson, guitarist for the rock band RushAlex McLeish, manager of the Scotland national football teamAlex Menzies, Scottish professional footballerAlex Naumik, Polish Norwegian funk rock musicianAlex Pettyfer, English actor who plays Alex Rider in the film StormbreakerAlex Rodriguez, Major League Baseball player on the New York YankeesAlex Shelly, Professional wrestlerAlex Trebek, host of the game show Jeopardy!Alex Turner, singer for the Arctic MonkeysAlex Van Halen, a drummer from the band Van Halen
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n. Alex, male first name (form of Alexander); female first name (form of Alexandra)

n. Alex, male first name (form of Alexander); female first name (form of Alexandra)

<language> 1. A polymorphic language being developed by Stephen Crawley sxc@itd.dtso.oz.au of Defence Science & Tech Org, Australia. Alex has abstract data types, type inference and inheritance.
2. <language> An ISWIM-like language with exception handling.
["An Exception Handling Construct for Functional Languages", M. Brez et al, in Proc ESOP88, LNCS 300, Springer 1988].
3. A scanner generator. Alexis is its input language.
["Alex: A Simple and Efficient Scanner Generator", H. Mossenbock, SIGPLAN Notices 21(5), May 1986].
(1994-12-15)