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Questions about the meaning or usage of programming terms.

From computing.surrey.ac.uk

Three major points:

  1. Firstly, proper terminology is concerned with the relationship between concepts, and between them and their designations, rather than with designations alone or with the objects they represent. This point is essential if quality is to be achieved, especially with synonyms and in multilingual environments.
  2. Secondly, a designation does not necessarily have to be a word or phrase, although it often is. Thus terminological resources may comprise symbols, drawings, formulae, codes, etc. as well as, or even instead of, words. This point is especially important given the move to multimedia systems.
  3. Thirdly, terminology is inextricably linked with specialist knowledge and hence with special languages or languages for special purposes (LSPs).
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Is there a Prolog name for moving a functor name in to an argument?

It is not uncommon to see data in Prolog written with a functor, e.g. note("This is a note") but Prolog can also process the data with the name moved to an argument, e.g. (note,"This is a note") When moving the data name from the functor into an…
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Correct term for an offline web application

We are working on an offline application for which we use a web interface as the GUI. We have sensitive data showing there, so it is important for us that in our communication we make clear that this is a desktop application, "something offline,…
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Term for development interface allowing for immediate execution of cell blocks

I am looking for a term that I heard recently but can't think of at the moment. It's on the tip of my tongue. What is it called when you are able to execute individual cells / blocks of code, see the output, and the system maintains state between…
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Interpreting regression output: stock index percentage vs basis point change

I'm trying to understand how to interpret a regression output when the dependent variable is weekly stock market return. I have calculated the return variable as the weekly percentage change in the S&P500 price index. The way I interpret a…
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Naming of a pointer to single object/instance of a data type

The prelude... Where I work, people say I have the wrong terminology or invent my own. My boss says the right terminology is very important when working in a team. The question In C, what is the right term to use when we are referring to a pointer…
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Labels for the different parts of the URL "https://www.gooogle:com@home.html"

I have a question on the labeling of parts of a URL and would like to clarify my understanding. https://www.gooogle:com@home.html What I have: https - protocol/scheme www - sub-domain (?) google - username www.gooogle -…
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Is convert an apt term to use when returning a modified value in Haskell?

This is in the context of writing a function description. Let's say I have the function: fromMaybe :: a -> Maybe a -> a fromMaybe _ (Just x) = x fromMaybe d Nothing = d Would it be correct to say that this function "converts an object of type…
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Binary terms Confusion

How the following terms different in context of a file ? Binary Form and Binary File.
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Why are associative arrays called associative when they are not associative?

An operation * is associative iff (A*B)*C = A*(B*C). For * the access operation on associative arrays, it is not associative: Consider an associative array, represented as a json: A = { B: { C: D } } We have: (A.B).C = D But: A.(B.C) is…
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Proper Term to Describe Output from Inner Join

Just keeping it simple here, so this is not specific to any computer language. But suppose I'm joining 2 tables, A and B. The relationship between the 2 tables is 1:many. If I use some type of code that performs an inner join between A and B, the…
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How we would call Docker? It's not hypervisor, right? But then, what is the proper word for it?

My question is about terminology. When we use full virtualization, we use hypervisor as our main tool. For example, if we have Win 95 running on VMware Workstation which is running on Win 7, our "main tool" is VMware Workstation, which is…
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Are "procedure" and "function" synonymous in Racket?

Are "procedure" and "function" synonymous in Racket (a dialect of Scheme)? It seems to be implied by the documentation. For example, the documentation for compose describes it as a procedure that [r]eturns a procedure that composes the given…
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Definition of a compiler pipeline

Can someone explain this term to me in an abstract way and then give me a small example how this works. In my opinion it has something to do with the front end and back end of a compiler and how the phases are performed. I have problems to describe…
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Term for this property of setters which extends "idempotentce."

It's so hard to find information on a topic when you don't know the term! Consider the following code int x = 5; x = 42; x = 3; This code can be optimized, because its effects are the same as int x = 3; I'm trying to find the term for this…
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A proper term for arguments of GROUP BY and aggregate functions, like SUM()

The answer I couldn't find anywhere, what is a term for columns listed in GROUP BY clause? And in opposite, what is a name for columns to which aggregate functions applied?
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