In computer programming, a declaration is a language construct specifying identifier properties: it declares a word's (identifier's) meaning. Declarations...
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Virginia Declaration (computer programming), a specification of the identifier, type, and other aspects of language elements Declaration (cricket),...
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programming languages, with C compilers available for practically all modern computer architectures and operating systems. The book The C Programming...
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"Hello, World!" program in a given programming language. This is one measure of a programming language's ease of use. Since the program is meant as an...
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Computer programming or coding is the composition of sequences of instructions, called programs, that computers can follow to perform tasks. It involves...
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Numbers in the Ch Programming Language". Scientific Programming: 76–106. Cheng, Harry (1993). "Scientific Computing in the Ch Programming Language". Scientific...
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In computer programming, a parameter, a.k.a. formal argument, is a variable that represents an argument, a.k.a. actual argument, a.k.a. actual parameter...
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A computer program is a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to execute. It is one component of software, which also...
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both class-based and prototype-based programming, but in narrow use the term is reserved for class-based programming (one class inherits from another),...
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In computer programming, a forward declaration is a declaration of an identifier (denoting an entity such as a type, a variable, a constant, or a function)...
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Many programming language type systems support subtyping. For instance, if the type Cat is a subtype of Animal, then an expression of type Cat should...
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In computer programming, initialization or initialisation is the assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable. The manner in which initialization...
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computer programming, a statement is a syntactic unit of an imperative programming language that expresses some action to be carried out. A program written...
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variables to be among computer science's "most valuable treasures." Donald Knuth, Structured Programming, with go to Statements In computer science, a pointer...
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Action at a distance is an anti-pattern in computer science in which behavior in one part of a program varies wildly based on difficult or impossible...
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fields, including terms relevant to software, data science, and computer programming. Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See...
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is a fundamental concept in computer science and software engineering, especially within the object-oriented programming paradigm. Examples of this include:...
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Data type (redirect from Type (computer programming))
In computer science and computer programming, a data type (or simply type) is a collection or grouping of data values, usually specified by a set of possible...
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In computer programming, a block or code block or block of code is a lexical structure of source code which is grouped together. Blocks consist of one...
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Finalizer Constructor (computer science) Object lifetime Resource Acquisition Is Initialization Rule of three (C++ programming) "dtor". TheFreeDictionary...
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In some programming languages, const is a type qualifier (a keyword applied to a data type) that indicates that the data is read-only. While this can...
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A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs. Programming languages are described in terms of their syntax (form) and...
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object-oriented programming, a class defines the shared aspects of objects created from the class. The capabilities of a class differ between programming languages...
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ALGOL 58 (redirect from ALGOL 58 programming language)
ALGOL 58, originally named IAL, is a member of the ALGOL family of computer programming languages. It was an early compromise design soon superseded by ALGOL...
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Programming Languages, Third Edition. Addison-Wesley. p. 104. ISBN 0-201-71012-9. Wilson, Leslie B.; Clark, Robert G. (2001). Comparative Programming...
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for the computer to perform. Imperative programming focuses on describing how a program operates. Object-oriented programming, a programming paradigm...
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Manifest file (category Computer file formats)
In computer programming, a manifest file is a file containing metadata for a group of accompanying files that are part of a set or coherent unit. For example...
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In computer science, imperative programming is a programming paradigm of software that uses statements that change a program's state. In much the same...
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In computer programming, a comment is text embedded in source code that a translator (compiler or interpreter) ignores. Generally, a comment is an annotation...
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Ecma International (redirect from Eco Declaration)
File Format ECMA-367 – Eiffel: Analysis, design and programming Language (See Eiffel programming language) ECMA-372 – C++/CLI Language Specification ECMA-376...
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