Questions tagged [programming]
Questions about English used for talking about programming, but not about programming languages themselves. Note that helping to name programming variables/classes is out of this site's scope.
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Syntax for placeholder text
Sometimes we need to write a sentence with a placeholder for a missing bit of information, which the reader needs to fill out when reading the text. This may be a number, or a word, or a sequence of ...
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What noun should I use when I want "seekability"?
This is programming lingo and apparently not a word in the dictionary and so I would like to be able to solve "this problem" with only dictionary primitives. (If you allow me to speak that away.)
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Wording for inheritance, heredity in programming
I have objects which are related in two ways:
Mother-child relation I called inheritance or heredity. It means that everything defined in the mother object gets inherited to the child.
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What is a good word or prhase to describe a unit of measure/a unit of physical quantity?
I am looking for a good word or a short phrase to describe a physical quantity.
For example consider these examples:
5.0 m3/h
17 bar
20 gpm (gallons per minute)
3 psi (pounds per square inch)
I am ...
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A word for the property of being either prefix or postfix
I'm looking for a word that describes the property of an operator being prefix or postfix, so I can write 'In expression x++, the _____ of ++ is "postfix"'.
I thought of using 'fixity', but that ...
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Indegree or in-degree
I've been reading network science books and I've been puzzled by use of in-degree and indegree. It seems both are used but are they both correct? In graph theory I have seen mainly indegree but in ...
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Machine learning on or of some data?
If it's machine learning using some platform or technology, it makes sense to use "on" ("ML on AWS"), but if we are talking about applying ML to some data, should "on" or ...
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EWhat could be the more technical term for code written in one place or one file?
I have come across the term local concession that one person used in the Clojure community to describe the code written in one place. Like step by step in the form of a procedure. His argument was the ...
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Parentheses instead of dashes: Is it required that the sentence will have the meaning with the "dashed" part omitted?
Else If and Else after jump statements
Each guard must be a separate If with no Else If or Else.
Otherwise—i.e., when a jump statement belongs to “normal” code and not a guard—Else If and Else must ...
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of existing or an existing .Which is more correct?
Extending functionalities of existing applications or Extending functionalities of an existing applications .Which is more correct?
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"For X, use Y" vs. "To represent X, use Y"
Is it grammatically correct and idiomatic to use "For X, use Y" in the meaning of "To represent X, use Y"? The target document is a programming style guide.
I like the brevity of ...
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"Listing", "text" or "code" of program
What is the best way to name the program text before displaying it: "listing", "text" or "code"? I am inclined to believe that the word "listing" is the most official, the word "code" is slang, and ...
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Pass value to function, constructor, shader: "pass", "give", "transfer" or other
Which word is better to use to indicate the transfer of a value to a function, the constructor of a class, or to transfer data from an vertex shader to a fragment shader? I tend to the word "pass". ...
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How can I say when referring to occurrences of an operator?
I'm documenting a coding guide.
Please help me out regarding how to indicate occurrences of an operator in an expression.
For example:
X = A + B + C + 3
In this situation, can you tell me a proper ...
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Can an object with dependencies be called a "dependent"?
Programmers spend much time discussing and resolving object dependencies.
Dependency ... [is] a state in which one object uses a function of another object.²
For example, if A, an object, needs a ...
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Is "specificity" the correct noun for the state or the possibility of being specified?
The motivation of this question is the following: there are entities in a computer program which can either be explicitly specified, or else they can be "inferred", that is, deduced automatically from ...
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Word for "Programmer Analyst"? (Spanish: "Analista Programador")
I really would like to know the correct translation of this IT role into English, because I believe that "Programmer Analyst" or "Analyst Programmer" do not make sense in English and it is a very ...
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How to express relation that something belong to something, using noun phrase?
I want to express the belong relation between things, but not use of or 's such as "path of file" or "file's path".
In coding, there is sometimes a need to express "belong" relation in an identifier ...
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“... takes as input ...” vs “... takes input as ...”
Why did the author place "as" between the verb take and the preposition here?
Give an efficient algorithm that takes as input a desired accuracy ϵ > 0 and returns a simple cycle C for which r(C)≥ r*...
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Grammar rule for 'the' in front of a noun
Is there an exhaustive list of rules for when to put 'the' in front of a noun, more specifically a location?
I want my program to be able to be smart about doing exactly this when building sentences. ...
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What does the word instruction mean in programming?
A computer program is a set of instructions that tells the computer what to do.
I have checked on the English dictionary the meaning of instruction in programming but I think it is wrong.
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