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  2. Snippet (programming) - Wikipedia

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    Snippet is a programming term for a small region of re-usable source code, machine code, or text. Ordinarily, these are formally defined operative units to incorporate into larger programming modules. Snippet management is a feature of some text editors, program source code editors, IDEs, and related software.

  3. Literate programming - Wikipedia

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    Literate Programming by Donald Knuth is the seminal book on literate programming.. Literate programming is a programming paradigm introduced in 1984 by Donald Knuth in which a computer program is given as an explanation of how it works in a natural language, such as English, interspersed (embedded) with snippets of macros and traditional source code, from which compilable source code can be ...

  4. Python syntax and semantics - Wikipedia

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    A snippet of Python code with keywords highlighted in bold yellow font. The syntax of the Python programming language is the set of rules that defines how a Python program will be written and interpreted (by both the runtime system and by human readers). The Python language has many similarities to Perl, C, and Java. However, there are some ...

  5. "Hello, World!" program - Wikipedia

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    Time to Hello World. "Time to hello world" (TTHW) is the time it takes to author a "Hello, World!" program in a given programming language. This is one measure of a programming language's ease of use; since the program is meant as an introduction for people unfamiliar with the language, a more complex "Hello, World!"

  6. Syntax (programming languages) - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, the syntax of a computer language is the rules that define the combinations of symbols that are considered to be correctly structured statements or expressions in that language. This applies both to programming languages, where the document represents source code, and to markup languages, where the document represents data.

  7. Programming language - Wikipedia

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    Programming language. The source code for a computer program in C. The gray lines are comments that explain the program to humans. When compiled and run, it will give the output "Hello, world!". A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs. [1]

  8. Comment (computer programming) - Wikipedia

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    Comment (computer programming) An illustration of Java source code with prologue comments indicated in red and inline comments in green. Program code is in blue. In computer programming, a comment is a programmer-readable explanation or annotation in the source code of a computer program. They are added with the purpose of making the source ...

  9. Boilerplate code - Wikipedia

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    Preprocessor – Program that processes input for another program; Scaffold (programming) – Code generation technique or a project generation technique; Snippet (programming) – Small region of re-usable source code, machine code, or text; Template processor – Software designed to combine templates with a data model to produce result documents