A programming language is an artificial language designed to express computations that can be performed by a machine, particularly a computer.
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Multimethods vs Interfaces
Are there languages that idiomatically use both notions at the same time? When will that be necessary if ever? What are the pros and cons of each approach?
Background to the question:
I am a novice ...
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Razor view engine language specification
Is there a language specification for the Razor view engine used in the ASP.Net MVC framework?
(I am interested in understanding more about how the Razor view engine syntax works from a programming ...
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Commutativity in operators
In C#, there is not in-built notion of commutativity in the language. That is if I define a simple Vector class for instance:
public struct Vector
{
private readonly double x, y, z;
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checking/verifying python code
Python is a relatively new language for me and I already see some of the trouble areas of maintaining a scripting language based project. I am just wondering how the larger community , with a scenario ...
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Traits vs. Interfaces vs. Mixins? [closed]
What are the similarities & differences between traits, mixins and interfaces. I am trying to get a deeper understanding of these concepts but I don't know enough programming languages that ...
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When are Javascript events executed?
When I look at JS code like:
socket = new WebSocket(server);
socket.onopen = function (evt)
{
// STUFF
};
Im always a little bit confused. If you ...
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Why do I need to write let to declare a variable?
In Haskell I don't need to write anything to declare a variable. In C++ I need to write auto, which as far as I know works in an analogous way to rust's let.
Isn't it a step back to use let to ...
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moving human 3d model that was made in blender/sculptrist in java
I was doing a human 3d model in sculptris and blender and i wanna ask how do programmers make the 3d model run/move with in the java or other programming langauges. do they do it within the ...
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Redirection of stdout to stdin in other languages that BASH when you fork or execute a program
I need to code a program which execute several subprograms, using pipes and redirection. So since I need to use some data structures and functions I want to avoid use Bash for that matter. So far, I ...
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Difference between C and JAVA program
I have two examples of the same program. This program has a function which creates an array and returns the pointer to array.
First program (in C):
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
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Why size of void pointer is 4 on Windows 64-bit platform
I have the following program that prints 4. I am running this program on Windows 7 64-bit. Shouldn't it print 8 for 64-bit platform? Thanks in advance.
#include <stdio.h>
void main()
{
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Is there a way to refer to the current function in python?
I want a function to refer to itself. e.g. to be recursive.
So I do something like that:
def fib(n):
return n if n <= 1 else fib(n-1)+fib(n-2)
This is fine most of the time, but fib does ...
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Is string “1a” an error for lexical analyser or not?
I am making a basic lexical analyser in Java for my semester project and I am at conflict on a concept with my subject teacher.
My view is that in general if an input like "1a" is given to lexical ...
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Do all interpreted/dynamically typed languages store everything on the heap?
I first wondered why a language would store everything on the heap, when it has serious performance cost. For example, Java folks avoid creating unnecessary objects because the performance differences ...
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How do you make things on your website not viewable on your mobile website?
I have a play game tab on my phone but I don't want it to be on the mobile view since there's no point since it won't work.... How can I take the tab off? I don't know anything about the mobile view ...
