In computing, Xyzzy is sometimes used as a metasyntactic variable or as a video game cheat code. Xyzzy comes from the Colossal Cave Adventure as well...
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Look up xyzzy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. xyzzy or XYZZY may refer to: Xyzzy (computing), a magic word from the Colossal Cave Adventure computer...
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Foobar (redirect from Foo (computing))
(character) Lorem ipsum, similar placeholder text used outside programming xyzzy Category:Variable (computer science) Eric S. Raymond (ed.). "The on-line...
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Cross product (redirect from Xyzzy (mnemonic))
abovementioned Levi-Civita representation).[citation needed] The word "xyzzy" can be used to remember the definition of the cross product. If a = b ×...
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most multi-player games as well. Cheating AI Debug menu Konami Code Xyzzy (computing) Video game modding Retro Gamer Magazine issue 48 – Interview with...
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NOP (code) (category Computing acronyms)
functional programming equivalent to NOP IEFBR14 – mainframe tautology xyzzy (computing) – a command sometimes used instead of NOP X86 instruction listings#Added...
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Easter egg (media) (redirect from Easter eggs (computing))
Adventure was fashioned, which includes several secret words. One of these is "xyzzy", a command which enables the player to move between two points in the game...
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and turns. Varicella by Adam Cadre (1999). It won four XYZZY Awards in 1999 including the XYZZY Award for Best Game, and had a scholarly essay written...
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Magic word (disambiguation) (section Computing)
come externally and which activates otherwise hidden functionality Xyzzy (computing), the first magic word encountered in Colossal Cave Adventure and often...
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Metasyntactic variable (redirect from Metasyntactic variable (computing))
quux, corge, grault, garply, waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, and thud. Two of these words, plugh and xyzzy, are taken from the game Colossal Cave Adventure...
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Inform (category History of computing in the United Kingdom)
Competition in 1998. Varicella by Adam Cadre (1999). It won four XYZZY Awards in 1999 including the XYZZY Award for Best Game, and had a scholarly essay written...
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RUNCOM (category History of computing in France)
called, e.g. putting CHAIN LALA FAFA in the script and invoking RUNCOM XYZZY 3 will cause LALA in the script to be substituted into a 3 when it is used...
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have gone on to have a lasting impact in programming and video games. "Xyzzy" is a magic word that teleports the player between two locations ("inside...
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early versions of the Minesweeper game, if the user starts the game, types "xyzzy", and presses Right Shift+↵ Enter simultaneously, the top left-most pixel...
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in use today to support legacy applications. HP BASIC (disambiguation) XYZZY (hidden command) MAME provides emulators for the 9825 and 9845. "Early Calc...
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value, dummy data) Canary value, special value to detect buffer overflows XYZZY (magic word) Fast inverse square root, an algorithm that uses the constant...
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expression. For instance, determining the validity of a given ISBN requires computing the modulus of the integer base 11, and can be easily implemented with...
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the in-progress compiler through its paces. "Interview: Graham Nelson". XYZZY News. Eileen Mullin. Archived from the original on 2008-06-22. Retrieved...
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and type certain commands in order to solve puzzles. It received the 2000 XYZZY Award for Best Puzzles. Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive...
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v = { "xyzzy", "plugh", "abracadabra" }; std::vector<std::string> v({ "xyzzy", "plugh", "abracadabra" }); std::vector<std::string> v{ "xyzzy", "plugh"...
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H. Ahl (April 1982). "Six Business Management Games" (jpg). Creative Computing. Vol. 8, no. 4. pp. 28, 30. Archived from the original on 2016-09-16....
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