How did Python become popular as a scripting language? [closed]
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Where does the the term “feature creep” come from?
There is a decent Wikipedia article on the “Feature Creep”, but it doesn’t state an origin. A Google search only leads to some vague article claiming “Earl Rich” coined the term, but there isn’t much backup for that claim. There is a Dilbert comic from 2001 on the subject, but the tone seems to imply that the term pre-existed; more or less confirmed by the fact that Google has results pre-2000. However, finding the exact origin proofs difficult.
When was source control invented?
I’m aware of many version control systems: CVS, SVN, TFS etc…
IPv4 to IPv6. where is IPv5?
As all of us know that after IPv4 it came IPv6. How this transition happened?
Who first coined the term Higher Order Function and/or First Class Citizen?
I’ve come to understand that long before Haskell, O’Caml or LISP, higher order functions were an academic research subject and in mathematics, Schönfinkel (in 1967) and Haskell Curry (in 1968) already applied techniques such as currying, but that was before it was available in any programming language.
Have there been disputes when software identifies genders with a boolean? [closed]
Professor: So, what data type would you choose if your program needs
to store the user’s gender?
Why five dining philosophers?
I was wondering why the Dining philosophers problem is based on a five philosophers case. Why not four?
Why do programming languages, especially C, use curly braces and not square ones?
The definition of “C-Style language” can practically be simplified down to “uses curly braces ({}).” Why do we use that particular character (and why not something more reasonable, like [], which doesn’t require the shift key at least on US keyboards)?
Why there are no compound assignment operators for logical operators (such as ||, && etc)?
According to ECMA-262, part 11.13, following is the exhaustive list of compound assignment operators: *= /= %= += -= <<= >>= >>>= &= ^= |=.
I need some help with defining a shell syntax
I’m trying to understand more about shells. I’m looking to implement one and want to look at what’s been done in the past.