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Whatever happened to Pascal? [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Why has C prevailed over Pascal? [closed] (10 answers) Closed 11 years ago. In reading this blog post about Photoshop 1.0 I was surprised to learn that it was written in Pascal (Object Pascal to be exact). But you never hear about Pascal anymore. Why is that? programming-languages history […]

Draw a checkerboard in Java

I’m reading through a programming book and am having trouble understanding a few parts of this code. The program draws a checkerboard, and colors the odd squares black.

Draw a checkerboard in Java

I’m reading through a programming book and am having trouble understanding a few parts of this code. The program draws a checkerboard, and colors the odd squares black.

How advanced are author-recognition methods?

From a written text by an author if a computer program analyses the text, how much can a computer program tell today about the author of some (long enough to be statistically significant) texts?

How advanced are author-recognition methods?

From a written text by an author if a computer program analyses the text, how much can a computer program tell today about the author of some (long enough to be statistically significant) texts?

Why do old C-style method names continue being used in modern languages? [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Why are cryptic short identifiers still so common in low-level programming? (11 answers) Are short abbreviated method/function names that don’t use full words bad practice or a matter of style? [duplicate] (13 answers) Closed 9 years ago. I understand that in the earlier days of computing, shorter method names […]

Why do old C-style method names continue being used in modern languages? [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Why are cryptic short identifiers still so common in low-level programming? (11 answers) Are short abbreviated method/function names that don’t use full words bad practice or a matter of style? [duplicate] (13 answers) Closed 9 years ago. I understand that in the earlier days of computing, shorter method names […]