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Event-driven programming — Programming paradigms Agent oriented Automata based Component based Flow based Pipelined Concatenative Concurrent computin … Wikipedia
MD5 — General Designers Ronald Rivest First published April 1992 Series MD2, MD4, MD5, MD6 Detail Digest sizes 128 bits … Wikipedia
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Xlib — is an X Window System protocol client library in the C programming language. It contains functions for interacting with an X server. These functions allow programmers to write programs without knowing the details of the protocol. Few applications … Wikipedia