Limbo (langage)Le langage de programmation Limbo a été créé vers 1995 par Rob Pike, Sean Dorward, Phil Winterbottom avec l'aide de Dennis Ritchie pour le système d'exploitation Inferno. C'est un langage hybride empruntant des fonctionnalités au C, au Pascal, au Alef de Winterbottom, au CSP de Tony Hoare et au Newsqueak de Robert Pike. Le Limbo est un langage qui a été initialement conçu pour Inferno. Le compilateur Limbo génère des objets qui sont interprétés par la machine virtuelle Dis.
Indentation comme syntaxeUn langage de programmation utilise l'indentation comme syntaxe si une zone de code indentée délimite un bloc. Un bloc est une entité programmatique qui délimite une portée. Peter J. Landin a inventé le concept de l'indentation comme syntaxe et créé le terme anglais off-side rule qui le désigne en 1966. Il constitue une alternative au . L'exemple qui suit est un exemple de bloc en Python (noter les deux points obligatoires - Ils sont des marqueurs syntaxiques qui facilitent la lecture) : def fib(n): if n
COMEFROMIn computer programming, COMEFROM (or COME FROM) is an obscure control flow structure used in some programming languages, originally as a joke. COMEFROM is the inverse of GOTO in that it can take the execution state from any arbitrary point in code to a COMEFROM statement. The point in code where the state transfer happens is usually given as a parameter to COMEFROM. Whether the transfer happens before or after the instruction at the specified transfer point depends on the language used.
Name bindingIn programming languages, name binding is the association of entities (data and/or code) with identifiers. An identifier bound to an object is said to reference that object. Machine languages have no built-in notion of identifiers, but name-object bindings as a service and notation for the programmer is implemented by programming languages. Binding is intimately connected with scoping, as scope determines which names bind to which objects – at which locations in the program code (lexically) and in which one of the possible execution paths (temporally).
Duplication de codeLa duplication de code en programmation informatique est une erreur courante de conception de logiciels où une suite d'instructions similaires (voire identiques) existe en plusieurs endroits du code source d'un logiciel. La duplication de code arrive à la suite de la programmation par copier-coller. C'est une erreur classique de débutants en programmation informatique ; cependant, cette erreur touche également les développeurs confirmés. Le code dupliqué pose des problèmes de maintenance dont l'importance augmente avec la quantité de code dupliqué.
S-algolS-algol (St Andrews Algol) is a computer programming language derivative of ALGOL 60 developed at the University of St Andrews in 1979 by Ron Morrison and Tony Davie. The language is a modification of ALGOL to contain orthogonal data types that Morrison created for his PhD thesis. Morrison would go on to become professor at the university and head of the department of computer science. The S-algol language was used for teaching at the university at an undergraduate level until 1999.
Asynchrony (computer programming)Asynchrony, in computer programming, refers to the occurrence of events independent of the main program flow and ways to deal with such events. These may be "outside" events such as the arrival of signals, or actions instigated by a program that take place concurrently with program execution, without the program blocking to wait for results. Asynchronous input/output is an example of the latter case of asynchrony, and lets programs issue commands to storage or network devices that service these requests while the processor continues executing the program.
Cooperative multitaskingCooperative multitasking, also known as non-preemptive multitasking, is a style of computer multitasking in which the operating system never initiates a context switch from a running process to another process. Instead, in order to run multiple applications concurrently, processes voluntarily yield control periodically or when idle or logically blocked. This type of multitasking is called cooperative because all programs must cooperate for the scheduling scheme to work.
Line numberIn computing, a line number is a method used to specify a particular sequence of characters in a . The most common method of assigning numbers to lines is to assign every a unique number, starting at 1 for the first line, and incrementing by 1 for each successive line. In the C programming language the line number of a source code line is one greater than the number of new-line characters read or introduced up to that point. Programmers could also assign line numbers to statements in older programming languages, such as Fortran, JOSS, and BASIC.
Branch tableIn computer programming, a branch table or jump table is a method of transferring program control (branching) to another part of a program (or a different program that may have been dynamically loaded) using a table of branch or jump instructions. It is a form of multiway branch. The branch table construction is commonly used when programming in assembly language but may also be generated by compilers, especially when implementing optimized switch statements whose values are densely packed together.
