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It Is An Historical Botch To Require Specification Of Object, Radix, And Sign Representation In A Single Character Argument.
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It is an historical botch to require specification of
object, radix, and sign representation in a single character argument.
-- Unix Manual, od(1)
Related:
Common: percent; <percent sign>; mod; grapes.
Rare: [double-oh-seven]. & Common: <ampersand&g...
The options described above interact with each other in strange and as yet to be defined ways.
-- Unix Manual, pr(1)...
EOF: /E-O-F/ [abbreviation, `End Of File'] n. 1. [techspeak] The {out-of-band} value returned by C's sequential character-input functions (and their equivalents in other environments) when end of file has been reached.
This value is -1 under C libraries postdating V6 UNIX, but was originally 0....
EOF /E-O-F/ n. [abbreviation, `End Of File'] 1.
[techspeak] The out-of-band value returned by C's sequential character-input functions (and their equivalents in other environments) when end of file has been reached....
fossil n. 1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break compatibility.
Example: the retention of octal as default base for string escapes in C, in spite of the better match of hexadecimal to ASCII and modern byte-addressable architectures....
fossil: n. 1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break compatibility.
Example: the retention of octal as default base for string escapes in {C}, in spite of the better match of hexadecimal to ASCII and modern byte-addressable architectures....
flowchart, n. & v.: [From flow to ripple down in rich profusion, as hair + chart a cryptic hidden-treasure map designed to mislead the uninitiated.
] 1. n. The solution, if any, to a class of Mascheroni construction problems in which given algorithms require geometrical representation using only the 35 basic ideograms of the ANSI template....
flowchart, n. & v.: [From flow "to ripple down in rich profusion, as hair" + chart "a cryptic hidden-treasure map designed to mislead the uninitiated.
] 1. n. The solution, if any, to a class of Mascheroni construction problems in which given algorithms require geometrical representation using only the 35 basic ideograms of the ANSI template....
flowchart, n. & v. [From flow "to ripple down in rich profusion, as hair" + chart "a cryptic hidden-treasure map designed to mislead the uninitiated.
] 1. n. The solution, if any, to a class of Mascheroni construction problems in which given algoritms require geometrical representation using only the 35 basic ideograms of the ANSI template....