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A programming language is an artificial language designed to express computations that can be performed by a machine.

Why does Flex's ArrayCollection's Contain method look at memory reference?

When using .contains() on an ArrayCollection in Flex, it will always look at the memory reference. It does not appear …

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How do functional programming languages work?

If functional programming languages cannot save any state, how do they do simple stuff like reading input from a user? …

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Reserved keywords count by programming language?

Is there a ranking or table of the number of reserved keywords in various programming languages? I do not need …

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Programming languages that compile to native code and have the batteries included

What are the programming languages that compile to native code and which have provided a comprehensive library with them? Libraries …

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What statically typed languages are similar to Python?

Python is the nicest language I currently know of, but static typing is a big advantage due to auto-completion (although …

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What is call-by-need?

I want to know what is call-by-need. Though I searched in wikipedia and found it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/…

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What programming languages support arbitrary precision arithmetic?

What programming languages support arbitrary precision arithmetic and could you give a short example of how to print an arbitrary …

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How do you spell/pronounce all the special characters and symbols

I sometimes need to look for information for a special portion of code. When this code concerns or contains a …

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What is a formal programming language?

What does it mean that a programming language is a formal programming language? And which languages are formal programming languages? …

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Is C# a single dispatch or multiple dispatch language?

I'm trying to understand what single and multiple dispatch are, exactly. I just read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

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