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Where does the term “Front End” come from?

Where does the term “front-end” come from? Is there a particular presentation/talk/job-posting which is regarded as the first use of the term? Is someone credited with coining the term?

What is constructor injection?

I have been looking at the terms constructor injection and dependency injection while going through articles on (Service locator) design patterns.

Is there tool agnostic terminology for source control activities?

My team is entering into some discussions on source control (process and possibly tools) and we would like a tool agnostic terminology for the various activities. The environment does have multiple (old) VCS’s, and multiple desired (new) VCS’s. Is there a standard definition of activities, or at least some commonly accepted set?

Is there a well grounded theory on backward and forward compatibility of formats, languages, grammars and vocabularies?

I have a friend who has the specific problem of building a case against the use of a custom HTML <wrapper> tag in some site’s markup. Now, intuitively we can answer that use of such a tag is risky, as future HTML specs may define a wrapper tag with semantics that conflict with its use on the site. We can also appeal to a particular section of the HTML5 spec which also recommends against the use of custom tags for this reason.

What is meant by 4 GL?

I came across the term 4GL(generation language) in reading about Oracle ADF Busniess components . I want to know what exactly is 4GL ?

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