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A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with a computer program by inputting lines of text called command lines. Command-line interfaces...

In computer science, functional programming is a programming paradigm where programs are constructed by applying and composing functions. It is a declarative...

A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe or big iron, is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications like bulk...

Big data primarily refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data-processing software. Data with many entries (rows)...

GNOME (/ɡəˈnoʊm/, /ˈnoʊm/) originally an acronym for GNU Network Object Model Environment, is a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and...

Moodle (/ˈmuːdəl/ MOO-dəl) is a free and open-source learning management system written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. Moodle...

High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding (HE-AAC) is an audio coding format for lossy data compression of digital audio defined as an MPEG-4 Audio profile...

In computer science, message passing is a technique for invoking behavior (i.e., running a program) on a computer. The invoking program sends a message...

An optimizing compiler is a compiler designed to generate code that is optimized in aspects such as minimizing program execution time, memory usage, storage...

A cloud database is a database that typically runs on a cloud computing platform and access to the database is provided as-a-service. There are two common...

Minix 3 is a small, Unix-like operating system. It is published under a BSD-3-Clause license and is a successor project to the earlier versions, Minix...

Antergos is a discontinued Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. By default, it includes the GNOME desktop environment, but it also offers options for...

The history of Unix dates back to the mid-1960s, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bell Labs, and General Electric were jointly developing...

In computer science, persistence refers to the characteristic of state of a system that outlives (persists for longer than) the process that created it...

Sublime Text is a text and source code editor featuring a minimal interface, syntax highlighting and code folding with native support for numerous programming...

This article provides basic comparisons for notable text editors. More feature details for text editors are available from the Category of text editor...

A remote, online, or managed backup service, sometimes marketed as cloud backup or backup-as-a-service, is a service that provides users with a system...

Yahoo! Maps was a free online mapping portal provided by Yahoo! Functionality included local weather powered by The Weather Channel, printing maps, and...

Tantek Çelik is a Turkish-American computer scientist, currently the Web standards lead at Mozilla Corporation. Çelik was previously the chief technologist...

In computer science, a readers–writer (single-writer lock, a multi-reader lock, a push lock, or an MRSW lock) is a synchronization primitive that solves...