Questions tagged [languages]
According to Wikipedia, Language is the human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, and a language is any specific example of such a system. The scientific study of language is called linguistics.
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why languages need an import/include/using etc to refer to other code in other files?
In various languages I came across during my career require some import/using/include etc. to refer to the code in other file. while the same languages also require a package manager or a list of ...
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Is there a cancel after certain amount of time try catch type of block?
I'm going through a beginner programming learning guides and the teacher brings up the try catch block paradigm. The code you put in the try block is run and if an error happens the code in the catch ...
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What is the name of the type of program to produce Unicode characters from ASCII combinations?
For example, in Vietnamese, there are Unicode characters like "â", "ê", "ô", "ư", v.v. To type them from keyboard, I need to type aa, ee, oo, w, then a program ...
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Are the Stack and Heap hardware, OS, or language-specific concepts?
In languages such as C or Java we have the concepts of the Stack and the Heap. Are these abstractions the particular language runtime/compiler creates over the plain-old RAM? Or are these concepts ...
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Is it possible to create a regular language from an non regular language?
I am wondering if it is possible to create a regular language from a irregular language if we add or remove finite number of words from it? say L is irregular, can we add or remove finite number of ...
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React and redux app-wide translation best practices
My team and I want to translate an entire React-redux app into another language (english to arabic) and have a switch that does the app-wide translation via a redux action. The content for the first ...
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What's a recommended way to design a db schema for multi-language website?
I'm building a website where I plan to support multiple languages. Not only via UI, but via the content too. I have several tables where I have text columns such as "title", "name", "description", ...
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Multiple language web application - how to implement?
What is the best way to provide a web application in multiple languages? The focus of my question is not what to think about, but indeed how to do it. The text in the web application: text in the ...
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