hobbit

Noun

hobbit - an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien

1.		Hobbit - A Scheme to C compiler by Tanel Tammet . Hobbit attempts to retain most of the original Scheme program structure, making the output C program readable and modifiable. Hobbit is written in Scheme and is able to self-compile. Hobbit release 1 works together with the scm release scm4b3. Future releases of scm and hobbit will be coordinated. Current version: release 2. ftp://altdorf.ai.mit.edu/archive/scm/hobbit2.tar.Z.
2.		hobbit - High order bit. The most significant bit (of a byte). Also known as the meta bit or high bit.