Basics
Operating system
Operating system (OS), program that manages a computer’s resources, especially the allocation of those resources among other programs. Typical…
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Basics
Hypertalk
Hypertalk, a computer programming language designed in 1985 as “programming for the rest of us” by American computer scientist Bill…
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Logo
Logo, a computer programming language that originated in the late 1960s as a simplified LISP dialect for use in education; Seymour Papert and others used…
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Database
Database, also called electronic database, any collection of data, or information, that is specially organized for rapid search and retrieval…
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COBOL
COBOL, in fullCommon Business-Oriented Language., High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many…
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Systems programming
Systems programming, Development of computer software that is part of a computer operating system or other control program, especially as used in…
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LISP
LISP, in full list processing, a computer programming language developed about 1960 by John McCarthy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). LISP was founded…
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Algol
Algol, also called Beta Persei, prototype of a class of variable stars called eclipsing binaries, the second brightest star in the northern constellation Perseus. Its apparent visual magnitude changes over…
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Real number
Real number, in mathematics, a quantity that can be expressed as an infinite decimal expansion. Real numbers are used in measurements of…
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FORTRAN
FORTRAN, in full Formula Translation, computer-programming language created in 1957 by John Backus that shortened the process of programming and made…
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