programming idiom
21Union (computer science) — In computer science, a union is a data structure that stores one of several types of data at a single location. There are only two safe ways of accessing a union object. One is to always read the field of a union most recently assigned; tagged… …
22RRIF — may stand for:* Registered Retirement Income Fund * Resource Release Is Finalization, an alternate name for the Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII) programming idiom …
23Sentinel node — A sentinel node is a programming idiom used to speed up some operations on linked lists and trees. It refers to a special type of object that represents the end of a data structure. Linked list data structures may use a sentinel object to… …
24Comparison of Java and C++ — Programming language comparisons General comparison Basic syntax Basic instructions Arrays Associative arrays String operations …
25Domain-specific language — Programming paradigms Agent oriented Automata based Component based Flow based Pipelined Concatenative Concurrent computing …
26Compatibility of C and C++ — Programming language comparisons General comparison Basic syntax Basic instructions Arrays Associative arrays String operations …
27nailing jelly to a tree — idiom. Tackling a particularly messy, and probably impossible, problem. Example Citations: How do you measure happiness, anyway? Happiness, like pain, has a threshold that varies from person to person. Defining it is about as easy as nailing… …
28performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical. The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …
29DirecTV — Type Public company[1] Traded as NASDAQ:  …
30Criticism of APL — APL has been used since the mid 1960s on mainframe computers and has itself evolved in step with computers and the computing market. APL is not widely used, but minimalistic and high level by design, at several points in its history it could have …
