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...ogramming]], a '''gotcha''' is a valid construct in a system, program or [[programming language]] that works as documented but is [[counter-intuitive]] and almost The classic gotcha in [[C (programming language)|C]]/[[C++]] is the construct ...

...ramming''' is an [[aphorism]] in [[computer programming]] and especially [[programming language]] circles that states:<ref>{{Cite web | author-link=Paul Graham (computer programmer) ...

{{short description|1983 essay about programming}} ...asculinity ''[[Real Men Don't Eat Quiche]]'') is an essay about [[computer programming]] written by Ed Post of [[Tektronix, Inc.]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/ ...

...isual programming language DRAKON|thumb|An example program in the [[visual programming language]] [[DRAKON]], containing 50 primitives]] ...phorism]] about the [[Information design|information density]] of [[visual programming language]]s originated by [[L Peter Deutsch|L. Peter Deutsch]] that states: ...

...he [[cross-platform]] benefits of the [[Java (programming language)|Java]] programming language.<ref>{{cite web | publisher=[[Computer Weekly]] ...

...library/[[software framework]] which refers to a capability of writing a [[computer program]] that can be compiled on all [[platform (computing)|platform]]s wi ...or system-specific elements a system of platform-specific files is used. A computer program may also use cross-platform libraries, which provide an [[abstracti ...

...e wasteful of resources. Code bloat can be caused by inadequacies in the [[programming language]] in which the code is written, the [[compiler]] used to compile i ...oth a program written in a "compact" language (such as a [[domain-specific programming language]], [[Microsoft P-Code]], or [[threaded code]]), plus an [[Interpre ...

{{about|Irons' IMP|the contemporary and unrelated programming language|Edinburgh IMP}} {{Infobox programming language ...

{{Short description|Intentionally obscure programming language}} ...g tarpit''' (or '''Turing tar-pit''') is any [[programming language]] or [[computer interface]] that allows for flexibility in function but is difficult to lea ...

...small" means creating those smaller parts by writing lines of code in a [[programming language]]. ..., and that typical programming languages, and the practice of [[structured programming]], provide good support for the latter, but not for the former. ...

...ges=308}}</ref> is a short and simple placeholder for a [[Method (computer programming)|method]] that is not yet written for production needs. Generally, a method A method stub may be used to implement an [[interface (computer science)|interface]] that is defined but for which the implementation is no ...

{{Short description|Division of programming languages into system programming and scripting}} ...' and ''[[scripting language]]s'' – compare [[programming in the large and programming in the small]]. ...

{{short description|Ritual inclusion of computer code that serves no purpose}} ...apply when anyone inexperienced with the problem at hand [[copy and paste programming|copies some program code]] from one place to another with little understand ...

...face bloat''' is a phenomenon in [[software design]] where an [[Interface (computer science)|interface]] incorporates too many (often unnecessary) operations o ...|last2=Moore |first2=Gale |date=15–17 April 2000 |publisher=Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society |isbn=0-9695338-9-6 |location=Montréal, Québec, Cana ...

{{short description|Term for abstraction in computer programming}} {{distinguish|Magic number (programming)}} ...

...as an argument and calling it – or implicitly, via [[reflection (computer programming)|reflection]] features which allow one to access certain functions dependin ...vaScript]], which provides reflection facilities to support it. In general programming practice, however, this is considered poor style, and recursion with named ...

{{short description|Computer programmer}} '''The Story of Mel''' is an archetypical piece of [[computer programming]] folklore. Its subject, '''Melvin Kaye''',<ref name=Librascope/> is an exemplary "[[R ...

...03 |chapter=Scrap your boilerplate: a practical design pattern for generic programming |title=Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Types ...d through high-level mechanisms such as [[metaprogramming]] (which has the computer automatically write the needed boilerplate code or insert it at [[compile t ...

{{Short description|Computer algorithm for evaluating compiler implementations}} ...was to distinguish [[compiler]]s that correctly implemented "[[recursion (computer science)|recursion]] and [[non-local reference]]s" from those that did not. ...

{{Short description|Program to compare computer programming languages}} ...ation]]. They then wrote implementations of the algorithm in several early programming languages to show how such concepts were expressed. ...