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• FORTRAN FORTRAN is the programming Language considered by many to be the natural successor to LISP and Prolog for A.
  I. research. Its advantages include: 1. it is very efficient for numerical computations (many A....
• In his book titled "Quick C", Al Stevens gives us a quick rundown on the origin, purpose and usefulness of so many programming languages.
  COBOL was designed so that managers could read code....
• page out vi. [MIT] 1. To become unaware of one's surroundings temporarily, due to daydreaming or preoccupation.
  "Can you repeat that? I paged out for a minute." See page in. Compare swap....
• A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.
  .. and the other twenty percent isn't very important....
• LISP n. [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] AI's mother tongue
  a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa....
• LISP: [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] n.
  AI's mother tongue, a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa....
• page out: [MIT] vi. 1. To become unaware of one's surroundings temporarily, due to daydreaming or preoccupation.
  Can you repeat that? I paged out for a minute....
• phase of the moon n. Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend.
  Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to determine....
• LISP-programmers say: "Guess how many parentheses are needed to do this!
  Prolog-programmers say: "How can I do it in reasonable time ?...