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| DECnet |
| DECnet is a proprietary suite of network protocols created by Digital Equipment Corporation, originally released in 1975 in order to connect two PDP-11 minicomputers. It evolved into one of the first peer-to-peer network architectures, thus making DEC into a networking powerhouse in the 1980s. |
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| Client-server |
| Client/Server is a network application architecture which separates the client (usually the graphical user interface) from the server. Each instance of the client software connects to a server or application server. |
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| HIPERLAN |
| HIPERLAN is a WLAN standard. It is a European alternative for the IEEE 802.11 standards (the IEEE is an American organization). It is defined by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). In ETSI the standards are defined by the BRAN project (Broadband Radio Access Networks). The HIPERLAN standard family has four different versions. |
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| Interface Description Language |
| An interface description language, (alternatively interface definition language) (IDL), is a computer language or simple syntax for describing the interface of a software component. |
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| Haskell Programming Language |
| Haskell is a standardized functional programming language with non-strict semantics, named after the logician Haskell Curry. It was created by a committee formed in the 1980s for the express purpose of defining such a language. The latest semi-official language standard is Haskell 98, intended to specify a minimal, portable version of the language for teaching and as a base for future extensions. The language continues to evolve rapidly, with Hugs and GHC (see below) representing the current de facto standard. |
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| Fortran |
| Fortran (also FORTRAN) is a programming language originally developed in the 1950s and still in heavy use half a century later at the turn of the millenium. The name is a portmanteau of Formula Translator/Translation. Early versions of the language were known as FORTRAN, but the capitalization has been dropped in newer revisions beginning with Fortran 90. The official language standards now refer to the language as "Fortran". |
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| Eiffel Programming Language |
| Eiffel is an object-oriented (OO) programming language which emphasizes the production of robust software. Many find its syntax to be reminiscent of Pascal. Eiffel is strongly statically typed, with automatic memory management (typically implemented by garbage collection). |
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| APL Programming Language |
| APL (for A Programming Language, or sometimes Array Processing Language) is an array programming language invented in 1962 by Kenneth E. Iverson while at Harvard University. Iverson received the Turing Award in 1979 for his work. As with all programming languages that have had several decades of continuous use, APL has changed significantly from the original language described by Iverson in his book A Programming Language in 1963. One thing that has remained constant is the interpretive nature of the APL programming environment, a feature much appreciated by its users. Conversely, its initial lack of support for both structured and modular programming has been solved by all the modern APL incarnations. One much criticized aspect still remains, though: the use of a non-standard character set. |
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| ALGOL |
| ALGOL (short for ALGOrithmic Language) is a programming language originally developed in the mid 1950s which became the de facto standard way to report algorithms in print for almost the next 30 years. It was designed to avoid some of the perceived problems with FORTRAN and eventually gave rise to many other programming languages (Pascal among them). ALGOL uses bracketed statement blocks and was the first language to use begin end pairs for delimiting them. Fragments of ALGOL-like syntax are sometimes still used as a notation for algorithms, so-called Pidgin Algol. |
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| The Top Twelve E-Mail Mistakes That Can Sabotage Your Career |
| You return to your office from an afternoon meeting and decide to check e-mail. You wonder where your day went after spending hours downloading messages, reading some, deleting others, crafting replies and filing those that you want to work on later. Your e-mail box was full when you arrived at work this morning and tomorrow promises to be no different. |
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