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

Is it possible to know in what language an exe file is written?

I have an exe file and I decompiled it with Ida. I was told the program coded in Delphi, so …

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What's the difference between: Asynchronous, Non-Blocking, Event-Base architectures?

What's the difference between: Asynchronous, Non-Blocking, and Event-base architectures? Can something be both asynchronous and non-blocking (and event-based)? What's most …

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Difference between compiled and interpreted languages?

What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of compiled and interpreted languages?

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What are common file extensions for web programming languages?

What file extensions are used most commonly by different languages? Please don't put source file names (like .java) but rather …

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What are the pros and cons of interpreted languages?

I'm now learning Perl. What are the pros and cons of the interpreted languages?

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What are Python namespaces all about

I have just started learning Python & have come across "namespaces" concept in Python. While I got the jist of …

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Shallow & Deep Binding - What would this program print?

I'm not sure how to do this... function f1() { var x = 10; function f2(fx) { var x; x = 6; fx(); }; function f3() { …

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Language to learn to move out of manual testing towards automated/programming

I have been working as a manual tester and documentation (Test plans etc.) personnel in a company's software/IT division. …

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Alternatives to Lua as an embedded language?

I am working on an embedded system running Linux on a DSP. Now we want to make some parts of …

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What does vanilla mean?

The vanilla adjective appears in many places: plain-vanilla java, vanilla javascript: what does it exactly mean? From context, is seems …

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