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  2. Python - Wikipedia

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    1 Snakes. 2 Computing. 3 People. ... a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, ... the internal project name for the PERQ 3 computer workstation; People

  3. Pythonidae - Wikipedia

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    The Pythonidae, commonly known as pythons, are a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia. Among its members are some of the largest snakes in the world. Ten genera and 39 species are currently recognized. Being naturally non-venomous, pythons must constrict their prey to induce cardiac arrest prior to consumption.

  4. List of computer term etymologies - Wikipedia

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    ping – a computer network tool used to detect hosts. The author of ping, Mike Muuss, named it after the pulses of sound made by a sonar called a "ping". Later Dave Mills provided the backronym "Packet Internet Groper". Python – an interpreted scripting programming language. Named after the television series Monty Python's Flying Circus.

  5. Python (genus) - Wikipedia

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    Python is a genus of constricting snakes in the Pythonidae family native to the tropics and subtropics of the Eastern Hemisphere. [1] The name python was proposed by François Marie Daudin in 1803 for non-venomous flecked snakes. [2] Currently, 10 python species are recognized as valid taxa. [3]

  6. Madtsoiidae - Wikipedia

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    Madtsoiidae is an extinct family of mostly Gondwanan snakes with a fossil record extending from early Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) to late Pleistocene strata located in South America, Africa, India, Australia and Southern Europe. Madtsoiidae include very primitive snakes, which like extant boas and pythons would likely dispatch their prey by ...

  7. Pythonoidea - Wikipedia

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    The Pythonoidea, also known as pythonoid snakes, are a superfamily of snakes that contains pythons (family Pythonidae) and other closely related python-like snakes (but not boas, which are in a separate superfamily called Booidea).

  8. Software - Wikipedia

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    Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer. [1] Software also includes design documents and specifications. The history of software is closely tied to the development of digital computers in the mid-20th century.

  9. History of software - Wikipedia

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    With such methods, if a mistake was made, the whole program might have to be loaded again from the beginning. The very first time a stored-program computer held a piece of software in electronic memory and executed it successfully, was 11 am 21 June 1948, at the University of Manchester, on the Manchester Baby computer.