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Artificial languages for instructing computers to do steps of computation in order to complete tasks. They allow programmers to communicate with computers.
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Are specific types still necessary?
I understand the reasoning, variables/objects are kept in memory, memory needs to be allocated and therefore we need to know how big a variable can be. But really, shouldn't a modern programming langu …
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What's the most used programming language in high performance computing? And why?
In my years of experience, up to 5 years ago, it has always been Fortran and C. Which one depended mostly on whether the people came more from engineering or more from CS school of thought (I don't kn …
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What does backslash "\" escape character really escape?
:)) It is a term related to that of an escape sequence and an Esc (escape) key. The character itself isn't "running away" from any other character. One might say the character following the escape c …
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Sports Programming
Nobody can really answer this with certanty and yet cover everything, but my guess is that they use numerous languages, depending on the particular need at hand. For example, if you search for availab …
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Academic programming languages?
Uuh, this is not a well worded topic :) Although there is no doubt some languages are more used in industry than other, naming them is controversial, and depends heavily of what industry you're in. …
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What are the most popular IDEs per language?
Visual Basic - Visual Studio C++, Fortran - Visual Studio, Vim, Emacs
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What are the drawbacks of Python? [closed]
Python seems all the rage these days, and not undeservingly - for it is truly a language with which one almost enjoys being given a new problem to solve. But, as a wise man once said (calling him a wi …
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Are Language Comparisons Meaningful?
That, except in some rare (and - rare - as in "it happens once or twice in the lifetime of a solar system") exceptions, it usually leads to language wars, in more or less strong variant, and very rare …
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If you had to go back and re-learn your skill set, how would you do it?
web / desktop / mobile / server programming? Seems like to me, he is interested in everything. The problem is however, he's gotta start with something. Many will disagree, as of course there is no "r …
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FP and OO orthogonal?
*I have heard this time and again and I am trying to understand and validate the idea that FP and OO are orthogonal. * First of all, what does it mean for 2 concepts to be orthogonal ? Wikipedia qu …
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Beginner need help on learning Qt programming
C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4 passed at one time through my hands. From what few days I had it, it seemed like a nice book; it's style of writing (explaining things) suited me very much. Your mileage …
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