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Every data type in erlang is called Term. It is a generic name that means any data type.

XSLT (XSL Transformations, Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a programming language that is based on XML and whose purpose is to manipulate and transform XML. It is a functional programming language and a W3C standard. Using XSLT you can transform one or more XML documents into a ...

A run is a consecutive sequence of repeated values or observations. For repeated values, R's "run-length encoding" concisely describes a vector in terms of its runs. Consider: dat <- c(1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 1, 4, 4, 1, 1) We have a length-one run of 1s; then a length-three run of 2s; the...

This section provides an overview of what racket is, and why a developer might want to use it. It should also mention any large subjects within racket, and link out to the related topics. Since the Documentation for racket is new, you may need to create initial versions of those related topics. ...

Drupal is an open-source content management system built in PHP. Drupal is designed to be flexible and powerful allowing developers to build a wide variety of sites, from blogs and brochure-style sites to complex e-commerce platforms. Through it's community driven modular architecture Drupal is ab...

Profiling code is a way to avoid the dreaded practice of "premature optimization", by focusing the developer on those parts of the code that actually justify optimization efforts. MATLAB documentation article titled "Measure Performance of Your Program".

This section provides an overview of what eclipse is, and why a developer might want to use it. It should also mention any large subjects within eclipse, and link out to the related topics. Since the Documentation for eclipse is new, you may need to create initial versions of those related topic...

$PSCmdlet.ShouldProcess("Target") $PSCmdlet.ShouldProcess("Target", "Action") ParameterDetailsTargetThe resource being changed.ActionThe operation being performed. Defaults to the name of the cmdlet. $PSCmdlet.ShouldProcess() will also automatically write a m...

The basic pattern for writing a module is to fill a table with keys that are function names and values that are the functions themselves. The module then returns this function for calling code to require and use. (Functions are first-class values in Lua, so storing a function in a table is easy an...

WinAPI (also known as Win32; officially called the Microsoft Windows API) is an application programming interface written in C by Microsoft to allow access to Windows features. The main components of the WinAPI are: WinBase: The kernel functions, CreateFile, CreateProcess, etc WinUser: The GUI...

This section provides an overview of what msbuild is, and why a developer might want to use it. It should also mention any large subjects within msbuild, and link out to the related topics. Since the Documentation for msbuild is new, you may need to create initial versions of those related topic...

Machine Learning is the science (and art) of programming computers so they can learn from data. A more formal definition: It is the field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. Arthur Samuel, 1959 A more engineering-oriented definition: A compu...

GUID (or UUID) is an acronym for 'Globally Unique Identifier' (or 'Universally Unique Identifier'). It is a 128-bit integer number used to identify resources. Guids are Globally Unique Identifiers, also known as UUID's, Universally Unique Identifiers. They are 128-bit pseudorandom values. The...

The official overview for Google Apps Script is published at http://www.google.com/script/start, from there Google Apps Script is a JavaScript cloud scripting language that provides easy ways to automate tasks across Google products and third party services and build web applications. From h...

R comes with classes for dates, date-times and time differences; see ?Dates, ?DateTimeClasses, ?difftime and follow the "See Also" section of those docs for further documentation. Related Docs: Dates and Date-Time Classes. Classes POSIXct A date-time class, POSIXct stores ti...

This section provides an overview of what x86 is, and why a developer might want to use it. It should also mention any large subjects within x86, and link out to the related topics. Since the Documentation for x86 is new, you may need to create initial versions of those related topics.