Source : WordNet®

Machiavelli
     n : a statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central
         government (1469-1527) [syn: {Niccolo Machiavelli}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Machiavelli
     
        An extension of {Standard ML} developed by Peter Buneman &
        Atsushi Ohori of the {University of Pennsylvania} in 1989,
        based on {orthogonal persistence}.
     
        ["Database Programming in Machiavelli: A Polymorphic Language
        with Static Type Inference", A. Ohori, Proc SIGMOD Conf, ACM,
        June 1989].
     
        (1995-02-21)