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“Release”, “free”, or “delete allocated memory”?
release the allocated memory.
free the allocated memory.
delete the allocated memory.
What are the differences between them?
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Verb to describe “to enable or to disable”
I'm looking for a word that describes "to enable or to disable". This related question found the hypernyms mode and state, but I am looking for a verb. I.e. a word for "(potentially) change ...
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Is “catenate” used in IT parlance?
When I was doing my IT degree in the 80s we learned that, in programming terms, concatenation was the act of joining two strings together.
Recently I was reading a technical manual and came across ...
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Where does the phrase “run code” or “run software” come from? Why “run”?
Historically speaking, it makes sense to me someone would say run "the computer". Early computers (not a human computer) were mechanical machines with moving parts that could achieve a velocity deemed ...
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The verb for carrying out a bitwise OR/AND operation
I'm writing a scientific/technical text which involves describing some low level code.
I need to complete the following sentence:
When two values are combined, their tags are _ _ _ _ _ _ together
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What's the correct word to use in order to prompt the user to enter the data in a computer app: “Enter” or “Insert”?
When I write an application with a programming language and I want some inputs from the user, should I use the word "Enter" or "Insert"?
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Question regarding “does”/“do”
What rule of grammar does this sentence break? (I mean the "does" part of the following sentence)
What does the status indicators mean?
Also, why does english.stackexchange.com have a code ...
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Are there any cases where “prepend” cannot be replaced by “prefix”?
"Prepend" is seeing a fair amount of use, both in programmer jargon and elsewhere.
Its use seems to come from a desire to create a word that is a direct parallel to "append."
However, such a word ...
