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Spam, ham, and eggs are the principal metasyntactic variables used in the Python programming language. [10] This is a reference to the famous comedy sketch, "Spam", by Monty Python, the eponym of the language. [11] In the following example spam, ham, and eggs are metasyntactic variables and lines beginning with # are comments.
an atom is either a number or a symbol; a number is an unbroken sequence of one or more decimal digits, optionally preceded by a plus or minus sign; a symbol is a letter followed by zero or more of any characters (excluding whitespace); and; a list is a matched pair of parentheses, with zero or more expressions inside it.
The Jargon File is a glossary and usage dictionary of slang used by computer programmers.The original Jargon File was a collection of terms from technical cultures such as the MIT AI Lab, the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) and others of the old ARPANET AI/LISP/PDP-10 communities, including Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), Carnegie Mellon University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
(s) = symbol (none of the above, representing and pronounced as something else; for example: MHz – megahertz) Some terms are spoken as either acronym or initialism, e.g., VoIP, pronounced both as voyp and V-O-I-P. (Main list of acronyms)
To find the texting abbreviations that confuse Floridians most, Vera found 114 of the most-commonly-used text abbreviations and “Identified the top most googled text abbreviations for their ...
2. Alaska: 'Outside' In most states, if you say you're going "outside," it literally means just that — you're stepping outdoors. However, in Alaska, the term "outside" is slang for leaving the ...
IANA—Internet Assigned Numbers Authority; IaaS—Infrastructure as a Service; IaC—Infrastructure as Code; iBCS—Intel Binary Compatibility Standard; IBM—International Business Machines; IC—Integrated Circuit; ICANN—Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers; ICE—In-Circuit Emulator; ICE—Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics
Maskot/Getty Images. 6. Delulu. Short for ‘delusional,’ this word is all about living in a world of pure imagination (and only slightly detached from reality).