In computer science, a generator is a routine that can be used to control the iteration behaviour of a loop. All generators are also iterators. A generator...
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Compiler-compiler (redirect from Parser generator)
In computer science, a compiler-compiler or compiler generator is a programming tool that creates a parser, interpreter, or compiler from some form of...
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Yield (section Computer science)
(multithreading) is an action that occurs in a computer program during multithreading See generator (computer programming) Yield (chemistry), the amount of product...
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generates application programs from descriptions of the problem rather than by traditional programming Generator (computer programming), a routine that acts...
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number generator algorithms. The theory behind them is relatively easy to understand, and they are easily implemented and fast, especially on computer hardware...
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Random number generators are important in many kinds of technical applications, including physics, engineering or mathematical computer studies (e.g....
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Random number generation (redirect from Random number generator)
through a long period. Most computer programming languages include functions or library routines that provide random number generators. They are often designed...
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A programming tool or software development tool is a computer program that is used to develop another computer program, usually by helping the developer...
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third-generation programming languages (3GL). Each of the programming language generations aims to provide a higher level of abstraction of the internal computer hardware...
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In computer science, automatic programming is a type of computer programming in which some mechanism generates a computer program, to allow human programmers...
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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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Pseudorandomness (category Theoretical computer science)
deterministic and repeatable process. Pseudorandom number generators are often used in computer programming, as traditional sources of randomness available to...
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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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Lazy evaluation (redirect from Short circuit (programming))
Currying Dataflow Eager evaluation Functional programming Futures and promises Generator (computer programming) Graph reduction Incremental computing – a...
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A programmable sound generator (PSG) is a sound chip that generates (or synthesizes) audio wave signals built from one or more basic waveforms, and often...
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A pseudorandom number generator (PRNG), also known as a deterministic random bit generator (DRBG), is an algorithm for generating a sequence of numbers...
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general-purpose signal generators will have a microprocessor control and may also permit control from a personal computer. Signal generators may be free-standing...
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or they can be generated using a computer. While there are many examples of "random" password generator programs available on the Internet, generating...
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Code generation (redirect from Code generator)
produce the executable form of computer programs, such as machine code, in some automatic manner Automatic programming (source code generation), the act...
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Lagged Fibonacci generator (LFG or sometimes LFib) is an example of a pseudorandom number generator. This class of random number generator is aimed at being...
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Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices and computer software, such as sequencers and workstations or hardware...
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The Symbolic Stream Generator (or SSG) is a software productivity aid by Unisys for their mainframe computers of the former UNIVAC 1100/2200 series. SSG...
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Parody generators are computer programs which generate text that is syntactically correct, but usually meaningless, often in the style of a technical paper...
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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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This is a list of notable lexer generators and parser generators for various language classes. Regular languages are a category of languages (sometimes...
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supports multiple programming paradigms, including structured (particularly procedural), object-oriented and functional programming. It is often described...
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The Postmodernism Generator is a computer program that automatically produces "close imitations" of postmodernist writing. It was written in 1996 by Andrew...
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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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Yacc (redirect from Yacc programming language)
Yacc (Yet Another Compiler-Compiler) is a computer program for the Unix operating system developed by Stephen C. Johnson. It is a lookahead left-to-right...
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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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