What are docstrings called in java?
Actually, they are called document comments and javadoc is a tool to generate those comments into HTML. You can find the structure of the Javadoc comment in Wikipedia (for example).
nomenclature
What is the definition of an absolute URL (fully qualified?)
RFC 3986 defines Uniform Resource Identifiers. A relative reference that begins with a single slash character is termed an absolute-path reference. A relative reference that does not begin with a slash character is termed a relative-path reference. href=”foo/bar.html” is a relative reference, specifically a relative-path reference. href=”/foo/bar.html” is a relative reference with an absolute path … Read more
Why is it called ‘business logic’? Where did this term come from? [closed]
For the same reason that the end of a gun which the bullets come out of is called the “business end”. It’s where the primary action happens.
What does “cdecl” stand for?
It comes from C function that was declared (in contrast to a C function that was not declared which was common in K&R C). At the time it was coexisting with pascal calling convention (wher the callee cleared the stack), so it kind of made sense to call it after the programming language. Everything you … Read more
What’s the difference between abstraction and generalization?
A very interesting question indeed. I found this article on the topic, which concisely states that: While abstraction reduces complexity by hiding irrelevant detail, generalization reduces complexity by replacing multiple entities which perform similar functions with a single construct. Lets take the old example of a system that manages books for a library. A book … Read more
What is the relation between GTK, GTK+ and GTK2?
The first incarnation of the project was called GTK (which stood for GIMP Toolkit). At some very early point, while the project was still part of The GIMP (and before version 1.0), it was renamed to GTK+. Despite this, people often referred to it as GTK out of convenience or ignorance. The GTK+ name was … Read more
What are the backticks “ called?
Backticks (“) is an execution operator. PHP will attempt to execute the contents of the backticks as a shell command; the output will be returned (i.e., it won’t simply be dumped to output; it can be assigned to a variable). Use of the backtick operator is identical to shell_exec(). For example, <?php $output = `ls … Read more
What is the difference between a heuristic and an algorithm?
An algorithm is the description of an automated solution to a problem. What the algorithm does is precisely defined. The solution could or could not be the best possible one but you know from the start what kind of result you will get. You implement the algorithm using some programming language to get (a part … Read more
Naming conventions: “State” versus “Status” [closed]
IMO: status == how are you? [good/bad] state == what are you doing? [resting/working]