Acronym
The topic of Glossary acronyms.- AI - An acronym for "Artificial Intelligence"
- aka - An acronym for "also known as"
- AOP - An acronym for "Aspect-Oriented Programming"
- API - An acronym for Application Programming Interface
- BNF - An acronym for Backus Normal Form or Backus Naur Form, a notation for context-free grammars
- BOS - An acronym for Bubach Operating System, apparently a no-kernel OS
- CAM - CAM is an acronym of Categorical Abstract Machine
- CAPE - An acronym for Clips And Perl with Extensions: a programming environment which combine (see Combining Languages) CLIPS and PERL
- CAS - An acronym for Computer Algebra Systems
- CLHS - Search Facilities
- CLI - An acronym for Command Line Interface, a kind of user interface
- CLIM - CLIM is an acronym for Common Lisp Interface Manager
- CLIPS - An acronym for C Language Integrated Production System; a programming language and an environment to development expert systems with three different programming paradigms: rule-based (declarative), object-oriented and procedural (imperative)
- Cobol - An acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language, a very old programming language
- COM - An acronym for Component Object Model
- CORBA - An acronym for Common Object Request Broker Architecture
- CPS - CPS is an acronym for Continuation-Passing Style
- CPU - The topic CPU is an acronym for Central Processing Unit
- CTO - An acronym for the site name CLiki.Tunes.Org, this site
- DAG - An acronym for Directed Acyclic Graph, a graph with directed edges and no loops
- DBMS - An acronym for Data Base Management System
- DML - An acronym for Dependent ML, a conservative extension of the functional programming language ML with a type system enriched with a restricted form of dependent types
- DSL - An acronym for Domain-Specific Language
- DWIM - An acronym for a user interface strategy called "Do What I Mean", where common programming errors are corrected in a live sense
- EBNF - An acronym for Extended BNF, a notation for context-free grammars
- FAQ - An acronym for a list of Frequently-Asked Questions
- FCCM - FCCM is an acronym for field-programmable custom computing machine, a computing device in which Programmable Logic Devices replace traditional general purpose processors, or fixed logic, in order to achieve superior performance or other capabilities
- FFI - FFI is an acronym for Foreign Function Interface
- FGCS - An acronym for Fifth Generation Computer Systems
- FOP - An acronym for "Feature-Oriented Programming"
- FSM - An acronym for Finite-State Machine
- GC - An acronym for Garbage Collection
- Godiva - An acronym for GOal-DIrected jaVA, a programming language which extends Java whith additional built-in data types, higher level (collection-oriented) operators, goal-directed expression evaluation (as in Icon), and pattern-matching on strings
- GOMS - A user interface concept, acronym for Goals, Operators, Methods and Selection rules, a model of efficiency in HCI
- GPL - An acronym for GNU General Public License, a license
- GUI - An acronym for graphical user interfaces
- Hardware description language - In electronics, a HDL (an acronym for hardware description language) is any language from a class of computer languages for formal description of electronic circuits
- HCI - An acronym for Human-Computer Interaction
- ILU - An acronym for Inter-Language Unification system, one of the most sophisticated Foreign Function Interface generators
- IPC - An acronym for InterProcess Communication
- IRC - It is an acronym for Internet Relay Chat
- JIT - An acronym for Just In Time
- LMNL - An acronym for Layered Markup and Annotation Language
- LoI - LoI is an acronym for "Language of Interaction"
- LtU - An acronym for Lambda, the Ultimate Programming Languages Weblog
- MIA - An acronym for "Missing In Action"
- MISC - An acronym for Minimal Instruction Set Computer
- ML - An acronym for Meta Language (originally for the theorem prover LCF) is a class of non-lazy, statically-typed, statically-compiled, pattern-matching functional programming languages
- MMU - An acronym for Memory Management Unit
- Moostrap - An acronym for Mini Object-Oriented System Towards Reflective Architectures for Programming: a prototype-based object-oriented programming language with behavioral reflection
- MOP - An acronym for Meta-Object Protocol
- MST - An acronym for Meta-System Transition theory
- MUD - An acronym for Multi User Dungeon
- MVC - An acronym for the Model-View-Controller user interface architecture
- NASM - NASM is an acronym for the Netwide ASseMbler, an assembler for Intel x86 assembly
- NIAL - An acronym for Nested Interactive Array Language, a collection-oriented programming language
- OO - An acronym for Object-Oriented
- OOP - An acronym for Object-Oriented Programming
- OS - The topic OS is an acronym for Operating System
- PD - An acronym for Public Domain
- PDF - PDF is an acronym for Portable Documentation Format, by Adobe System, Inc.
- Pilot - Acronym for Programmed Inquiry, Learning, Or Teaching language
- PJ - An acronym for Pictorial Janus, a visual concurrent constraints programming language based on Janus
- programmable logic device - A PLD (acronym for programmable logic device) is an electronic component used to build digital circuits
- ps - PS is an acronym for PostScript
- PVM - An acronym for Parallel Virtual Machine, a concrete VM
- QoS - An acronym for Quality of Service
- REPL - An acronym for the Lisp programming language family's very general and famous meta-level architecture for extension
- RI - An acronym for ResearchIndex
- RISC - An acronym for Reduced Instruction Set Computer, a kind of CPU
- RTOS - An acronym for Real-Time OS
- Salsa - An acronym for Simple Actor Language and System Architecture: a distributed actor-based programming language with syntax similar to Java's, while also running on the JVM platform
- SAS - An acronym for Single Address Space
- SCP - SCP is an acronym for Supervised Compilation or Supercompilation
- SEI - An acronym for Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
- SGML - SGML is an acronym for Structured Generalized Markup Language
- SICP - SICP is an acronym for "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", a book written by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman and Julie Sussman, published by MIT press and used as a textbook at MIT for introductory courses
- TAL - An acronym for Typed Assembly Language, which extends traditional untyped assembly programming languages with typing annotations, memory management primitives, and a sound set of typing rules
- THE - THE an acronym for The Humane Environment
- TIGRE - An acronym for Threaded Interpretive Graph Reduction Engine, a concrete VM described in Philip J. Koopman, Jr. Ph
- Tps - An acronym for Tiny/Transportable Postscript, a Postscript-like programming language with all of the graphics operators removed and Heterogeneous State Transportability: the ability to interrupt-migrate-resume a computation (even on a different machine architecture/OS) conceived to programming Agents
- TUI - An acronym for both Text and Textual User Interface
- TUNES HLL - The TUNES HLL is an acronym for "High-Level Language" or perhaps "High-Level Library", since the notion of language in Tunes is supposed to be fluid
- TUNES LLL - LLL is an acronym for "Low-Level Language" or perhaps "Low-Level Library", since the notion of portability language in Tunes is supposed to be fluid
- UI - An acronym for User Interface
- UTM - An acronym for Universal Turing Machine, a machine capable of emulating any other discrete-state machine
- VB - An acronym for Visual BASIC
- VM - An acronym for Virtual Machine
- WIMP - An acronym for Windows, Icons, Mice, and Pull-down menus
- WYSIWYG - A User Interface related acronym for What You See Is What You Get
- WYSIWYM - An acronym for the user interface concept of "What you see is what you mean
- XML - An acronym for eXtensible Markup Language
- ZUI - An acronym for Zoomable User Interface
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