• programming languages (3GL). Each of the programming language generations aims to provide a higher level of abstraction of the internal computer hardware details...
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    semantics). A language may also be defined by an interpreter in which the semantics of the host language is given. The definition of a language by a self-interpreter...
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    finite hardware resources. John C. Reynolds emphasizes that formal specification languages are just as much programming languages as are the languages intended...
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    assembly language code within larger systems implemented in a higher-level language, for performance reasons or to interact directly with hardware in ways...
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    Virtual machine (category Programming language implementation)
    native execution to share and manage hardware, allowing for multiple environments that are isolated from one another yet exist on the same physical machine...
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  • computer industry: falling hardware costs, rising labor costs, and improvements in compiler technology. Many earlier computer languages, such as Fortran and...
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    port is a hardware piece on a computer where an electrical connector can be plugged to link the device to external devices, such as another computer,...
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  • be between software, computer hardware, peripheral devices, humans, and combinations of these. Some computer hardware devices, such as a touchscreen...
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  • and receptacle defined for each of the A and B ends. A USB cable, by definition, has a plug on each end—one A (or C) and one B (or C)—and the corresponding...
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    a market reserve) for computer hardware and software, believing that Brazil could and should produce its own hardware and software. In that climate, Tecgraf's...
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  • to nondeterminism using the verifier-based definition. The mercury logic-functional programming language establishes different determinism categories...
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  • be a hardware description language such as Verilog or VHDL, or one of several languages specifically designed for input to simulators or hardware compilers...
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    intuitive concept of a "language", one described by syntactic rules. By an abuse of the definition, a particular formal language is often thought of as...
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  • platform for the future hardware typically includes one or more instruction set simulators. To simulate the machine code of another hardware device or entire...
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  • software programmable logic hardware Programmable logic is often considered part of the hardware, while the logical definitions are also sometimes seen as...
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    making them out of objects that interact with one another. Many of the most widely used programming languages (such as C++, Java, and Python) are multi-paradigm...
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  • React Native. Platform can refer to the type of processor (CPU) or other hardware on which an operating system (OS) or application runs, the type of OS,...
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  • Compiler (redirect from Language compiler)
    computer code written in one programming language (the source language) into another language (the target language). The name "compiler" is primarily used...
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  • any combination of hardware and operating system with adequate run time support. This is achieved by compiling the Java language code to an intermediate...
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  • are both conceptually familiar and directly embodied in the hardware, most computer languages are in the imperative style. Assignment statements, in imperative...
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    (RUNCOM)". Retrieved March 9, 2012. "What is glue code (glue code language)? - Definition from WhatIs.com". WhatIs.com. Retrieved 2022-01-31. Larson, Quincy...
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  • representing numbers; thus their definition of the modulo operation depends on the programming language or the underlying hardware. In nearly all computing systems...
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    A dongle is a small piece of computer hardware that connects to a port on another device to provide it with additional functionality, or enable a pass-through...
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    This is another correct sequential history. It is also a linearization since it matches the sequential definition. Note that the definition of linearizability...
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    to the computer hardware or by serving as input to another piece of software. The term was coined to contrast with the old term hardware (meaning physical...
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  • Burroughs Large Systems (category High-level language computer architecture)
    that machine. Hardware was designed to support software requirements Hardware designed to exclusively support high-level programming languages Simplified...
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  • As assembly languages, they are closely tied to the architecture's machine code instructions, allowing for precise control over hardware. In x86 assembly...
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    reconfigure the hardware. Another form of appliance is the virtual appliance, which has similar functionality to a dedicated hardware appliance, but is...
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  • hardware that security depends on and that we distinguish from a much larger amount that can misbehave without affecting security. Both definitions,...
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  • HDD—Hard Disk Drive HCL—Hardware Compatibility List HD DVD—High Definition DVD HDL—Hardware Description Language HDMI—High-Definition Multimedia Interface...
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