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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. List of programming languages by type - Wikipedia

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    OpenCL (extension of C and C++ to use the GPU and parallel extensions of the CPU) OptimJ (extension of Java with language support for writing optimization models and powerful abstractions for bulk data processing) Perl. Pike. PowerShell. Python (embedded in Maya, Blender, and other 3-D animation packages) Rexx.

  5. Structured programming - Wikipedia

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    Structured programming is a programming paradigm aimed at improving the clarity, quality, and development time of a computer program by making extensive use of the structured control flow constructs of selection ( if/then/else) and repetition ( while and for ), block structures, and subroutines . It emerged in the late 1950s with the appearance ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Python syntax and semantics - Wikipedia

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    Python syntax and semantics. 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).

  8. Programming tool - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A programming tool or software development tool is a computer program that software developers use to create, debug, maintain, or otherwise support other programs and applications. The term usually refers to relatively simple programs, that can be combined to accomplish a task, much as one might use multiple hands to fix a physical object.

  9. Programming paradigm - Wikipedia

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    A programming paradigm is a relatively high-level way to structure and conceptualize the implementation of a computer program. A programming language can be classified as supporting one or more paradigms. [1] Paradigms are separated along and described by different dimensions of programming. Some paradigms are about implications of the ...