Curation by Aziru 7 months ago for query foldoc
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http://foldoc.org/C — found via Mwmbl
C from FOLDOC
C It was called "C" because many features derived from an earlier compiler named "B". In fact, C was briefly named "NB". B was itself strongly influenced…
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http://foldoc.org/2 — found via Mwmbl
2 from FOLDOC
2 In names of translation software, infix 2 often represents the word "to" with the connotation "translate to", as in dvi2ps (DVI to PostScript), int2str…
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http://foldoc.org/B — found via Mwmbl
B from FOLDOC
2. A systems language written by Ken Thompson in 1970 mostly for his own use under Unix on the PDP-11 . B was later improved by Kerninghan(?) and Ritchie …
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http://foldoc.org/T — found via Mwmbl
T from FOLDOC
3. (lower case) The Lispatom used to represent "true", among other things. "false" is represented using the same atom as an empty list, nil. This overloa…
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http://foldoc.org/+ — found via Mwmbl
plus from FOLDOC
In programming, the operator is sometimes overloaded to perform other tasks like concatenating strings. In the C language and its many imitators, the sym…
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http://foldoc.org/mu — found via Mwmbl
mu from FOLDOC
mu 2. /moo/ The correct answer to the classic trick question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?". Assuming that you have no wife or you have never …
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http://foldoc.org/GC — found via Mwmbl
GC from FOLDOC
2. A storage allocator with garbage collection by Hans-J. Boehm and Alan J. Demers. Gc is a plug-in replacement for C 's malloc . Since the collector does…
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http://foldoc.org/hung — found via Mwmbl
hung from FOLDOC
["hung up"] Equivalent to wedged , but more common at Unix/C sites. Not generally used of people. Synonym with locked up , wedged ; compare hosed . See al…
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http://foldoc.org/lists — found via Mwmbl
list from FOLDOC
A data structure holding many values, possibly of different types, which is usually accessed sequentially, working from the head to the end of the tail - …
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http://foldoc.org/KR — found via Mwmbl
knowledge representation from FOLDOC
KR ⇝ knowledge representation A body of formally represented knowledge is based on a conceptualisation - an abstract view of the world that we wish to re…
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http://foldoc.org/vector — found via Mwmbl
vector from FOLDOC
vector 3. A memory location containing the address of some code, often some kind of exception handler or other operating system service. By changing the …
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http://foldoc.org/glitch — found via Mwmbl
glitch from FOLDOC
/glich/ [German "glitschen" to slip, via Yiddish "glitshen", to slide or skid] 1. (Electronics) When the inputs of a circuit change, and the outputs chang…
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https://foldoc.org/endian — found via Mwmbl
endian from FOLDOC
The Lilliputians, being very small, had correspondingly small political problems. The Big-Endian and Little-Endian parties debated over whether soft-boile…
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http://foldoc.org/about.html — found via Mwmbl
About FOLDOC
It aims to provide a one-stop source of information about all computing terms and includes many useful cross-references and pointers to related resources…
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https://foldoc.org/ABI — found via Mwmbl
Application Binary Interface from FOLDOC
ABI ⇝ Application Binary Interface (ABI) The interface by which an application program gains access to operating system and other services. It should be …
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http://foldoc.org/program — found via Mwmbl
software from FOLDOC
Software can be split into two main types - system software and application software or application programs . System software is any software required to…
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http://foldoc.org/?quiesce — found via Mwmbl
quiesce from FOLDOC
quiesce To render quiescent, i.e. temporarily inactive or disabled. For example to quiesce a device (such as a digital modem). It is also a system comman…
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http://foldoc.org/fallthru — found via Mwmbl
fall through from FOLDOC
fall thru ⇝ fall through 1. To exit a loop by exhaustion, i.e. by having fulfilled its exit condition rather than via a break or exception condition that…
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http://foldoc.org/functions — found via Mwmbl
function from FOLDOC
2. Computing usage derives from the mathematical term but is much less strict. In programming (except in functional programming ), a function may return d…
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http://foldoc.org/aggregate — found via Mwmbl
aggregate type from FOLDOC
aggregate type A data type composed of multiple elements. An aggregate can be homogeneous (all elements have the same type) e.g. an array, a list in a fu…
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https://foldoc.org/big-endian — found via Mwmbl
big-endian from FOLDOC
By July 1994 this parochial idiosyncracy was on the way out and mailers started to reject big-endian addresses. By about 1996, people would look at you st…
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http://foldoc.org/?marketroid — found via Mwmbl
marketroid from FOLDOC
marketroid /mar'k*-troyd/ (Or "marketing slime", "marketeer", "marketing droid", "marketdroid") A member of a company's marketing department, especially …
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http://foldoc.org/Intel+486SX — found via Mwmbl
Intel 486SX from FOLDOC
An Intel 486DX microprocessor with its floating-point unit disconnected. All 486SX chips were fabricated with FPUs. If testing showed that the CPU was OK …
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https://foldoc.org/mailing+list — found via Mwmbl
mailing list from FOLDOC
mailing list (Often shortened in context to "list") An electronic mail address that is an alias (or macro, though that word is never used in this connect…
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https://foldoc.org/little-endian — found via Mwmbl
little-endian from FOLDOC
A computer architecture in which, within a given 16- or 32-bit word , bytes at lower addresses have lower significance (the word is stored "little-end-fir…
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http://foldoc.org/europa.html — found via Mwmbl
Denis's EUROPa Page
EUROPa is a different way to connect up and explore the World-Wide Web. It was started at Imperial College, London, UK on 1994-12-22 by Denis Howe just to…
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https://foldoc.org/page+mode+DRAM — found via Mwmbl
Page Mode Dynamic Random Access Memory from FOLDOC
A technique used to support faster sequential access to DRAM by allowing any number of accesses to the currently open row to be made after supplying the r…
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https://foldoc.org/hysterical+reasons — found via Mwmbl
hysterical reasons from FOLDOC
hysterical reasons (Or "hysterical raisins") A variant on the stock phrase "for historical reasons", indicating specifically that something must be done …
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https://foldoc.org/memory+management+unit — found via Mwmbl
Memory Management Unit from FOLDOC
The virtual address space (the range of addresses used by the processor) is divided into pages , whose size is 2^N, usually a few kilobytes . The bottom N…
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http://foldoc.org/?referential+transparency — found via Mwmbl
referential transparency from FOLDOC
referential transparency An expression E is referentially transparent if any subexpression and its value (the result of evaluating it) can be interchange…
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http://foldoc.org/?Liskov+substitution+principle — found via Mwmbl
Liskov substitution principle from FOLDOC
Barbara Liskov first wrote it as follows: If for each object o1 of type S there is an object o2 of type T such that for all programs P defined in terms of…
New results
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http://foldoc.org/C — found via Mwmbl
C from FOLDOC
C It was called "C" because many features derived from an earlier compiler named "B". In fact, C was briefly named "NB". B was itself strongly influenced…
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http://foldoc.org/2 — found via Mwmbl
2 from FOLDOC
2 In names of translation software, infix 2 often represents the word "to" with the connotation "translate to", as in dvi2ps (DVI to PostScript), int2str…
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http://foldoc.org/B — found via Mwmbl
B from FOLDOC
2. A systems language written by Ken Thompson in 1970 mostly for his own use under Unix on the PDP-11 . B was later improved by Kerninghan(?) and Ritchie …
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http://foldoc.org/T — found via Mwmbl
T from FOLDOC
3. (lower case) The Lispatom used to represent "true", among other things. "false" is represented using the same atom as an empty list, nil. This overloa…
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http://foldoc.org/+ — found via Mwmbl
plus from FOLDOC
In programming, the operator is sometimes overloaded to perform other tasks like concatenating strings. In the C language and its many imitators, the sym…
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http://foldoc.org/mu — found via Mwmbl
mu from FOLDOC
mu 2. /moo/ The correct answer to the classic trick question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?". Assuming that you have no wife or you have never …
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http://foldoc.org/GC — found via Mwmbl
GC from FOLDOC
2. A storage allocator with garbage collection by Hans-J. Boehm and Alan J. Demers. Gc is a plug-in replacement for C 's malloc . Since the collector does…
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http://foldoc.org/hung — found via Mwmbl
hung from FOLDOC
["hung up"] Equivalent to wedged , but more common at Unix/C sites. Not generally used of people. Synonym with locked up , wedged ; compare hosed . See al…
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http://foldoc.org/lists — found via Mwmbl
list from FOLDOC
A data structure holding many values, possibly of different types, which is usually accessed sequentially, working from the head to the end of the tail - …
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http://foldoc.org/KR — found via Mwmbl
knowledge representation from FOLDOC
KR ⇝ knowledge representation A body of formally represented knowledge is based on a conceptualisation - an abstract view of the world that we wish to re…
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http://foldoc.org/vector — found via Mwmbl
vector from FOLDOC
vector 3. A memory location containing the address of some code, often some kind of exception handler or other operating system service. By changing the …
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http://foldoc.org/glitch — found via Mwmbl
glitch from FOLDOC
/glich/ [German "glitschen" to slip, via Yiddish "glitshen", to slide or skid] 1. (Electronics) When the inputs of a circuit change, and the outputs chang…
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https://foldoc.org/endian — found via Mwmbl
endian from FOLDOC
The Lilliputians, being very small, had correspondingly small political problems. The Big-Endian and Little-Endian parties debated over whether soft-boile…
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http://foldoc.org/about.html — found via Mwmbl
About FOLDOC
It aims to provide a one-stop source of information about all computing terms and includes many useful cross-references and pointers to related resources…
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https://foldoc.org/ABI — found via Mwmbl
Application Binary Interface from FOLDOC
ABI ⇝ Application Binary Interface (ABI) The interface by which an application program gains access to operating system and other services. It should be …
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http://foldoc.org/program — found via Mwmbl
software from FOLDOC
Software can be split into two main types - system software and application software or application programs . System software is any software required to…
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http://foldoc.org/?quiesce — found via Mwmbl
quiesce from FOLDOC
quiesce To render quiescent, i.e. temporarily inactive or disabled. For example to quiesce a device (such as a digital modem). It is also a system comman…
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http://foldoc.org/fallthru — found via Mwmbl
fall through from FOLDOC
fall thru ⇝ fall through 1. To exit a loop by exhaustion, i.e. by having fulfilled its exit condition rather than via a break or exception condition that…
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http://foldoc.org/functions — found via Mwmbl
function from FOLDOC
2. Computing usage derives from the mathematical term but is much less strict. In programming (except in functional programming ), a function may return d…
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http://foldoc.org/aggregate — found via Mwmbl
aggregate type from FOLDOC
aggregate type A data type composed of multiple elements. An aggregate can be homogeneous (all elements have the same type) e.g. an array, a list in a fu…
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https://foldoc.org/big-endian — found via Mwmbl
big-endian from FOLDOC
By July 1994 this parochial idiosyncracy was on the way out and mailers started to reject big-endian addresses. By about 1996, people would look at you st…
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http://foldoc.org/?marketroid — found via Mwmbl
marketroid from FOLDOC
marketroid /mar'k*-troyd/ (Or "marketing slime", "marketeer", "marketing droid", "marketdroid") A member of a company's marketing department, especially …
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http://foldoc.org/Intel+486SX — found via Mwmbl
Intel 486SX from FOLDOC
An Intel 486DX microprocessor with its floating-point unit disconnected. All 486SX chips were fabricated with FPUs. If testing showed that the CPU was OK …
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https://foldoc.org/mailing+list — found via Mwmbl
mailing list from FOLDOC
mailing list (Often shortened in context to "list") An electronic mail address that is an alias (or macro, though that word is never used in this connect…
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https://foldoc.org/little-endian — found via Mwmbl
little-endian from FOLDOC
A computer architecture in which, within a given 16- or 32-bit word , bytes at lower addresses have lower significance (the word is stored "little-end-fir…
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http://foldoc.org/europa.html — found via Mwmbl
Denis's EUROPa Page
EUROPa is a different way to connect up and explore the World-Wide Web. It was started at Imperial College, London, UK on 1994-12-22 by Denis Howe just to…
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https://foldoc.org/page+mode+DRAM — found via Mwmbl
Page Mode Dynamic Random Access Memory from FOLDOC
A technique used to support faster sequential access to DRAM by allowing any number of accesses to the currently open row to be made after supplying the r…
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https://foldoc.org/hysterical+reasons — found via Mwmbl
hysterical reasons from FOLDOC
hysterical reasons (Or "hysterical raisins") A variant on the stock phrase "for historical reasons", indicating specifically that something must be done …
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https://foldoc.org/memory+management+unit — found via Mwmbl
Memory Management Unit from FOLDOC
The virtual address space (the range of addresses used by the processor) is divided into pages , whose size is 2^N, usually a few kilobytes . The bottom N…
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http://foldoc.org/?referential+transparency — found via Mwmbl
referential transparency from FOLDOC
referential transparency An expression E is referentially transparent if any subexpression and its value (the result of evaluating it) can be interchange…
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http://foldoc.org/?Liskov+substitution+principle — found via Mwmbl
Liskov substitution principle from FOLDOC
Barbara Liskov first wrote it as follows: If for each object o1 of type S there is an object o2 of type T such that for all programs P defined in terms of…