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  2. Comparison of data-serialization formats - Wikipedia

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    ^ ASN.1 has X.681 (Information Object System), X.682 (Constraints), and X.683 (Parameterization) that allow for the precise specification of open types where the types of values can be identified by integers, by OIDs, etc. OIDs are a standard format for globally unique identifiers, as well as a standard notation ("absolute reference") for ...

  3. Record-oriented filesystem - Wikipedia

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    Record-oriented filesystems can be supported on media other than direct access devices. A deck of punched cards can be considered a record-oriented file. A magnetic tape is an example of a medium that can support records of uniform length or variable length. In a record file system, a programmer designs the records that may be used in a file.

  4. Serialization - Wikipedia

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    Flow diagram. In computing, serialization (or serialisation, also referred to as pickling in Python) is the process of translating a data structure or object state into a format that can be stored (e.g. files in secondary storage devices, data buffers in primary storage devices) or transmitted (e.g. data streams over computer networks) and reconstructed later (possibly in a different computer ...

  5. List of file formats - Wikipedia

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    GCF – format used by the Steam content management system for file archives; IMG – format used by Renderware-based Grand Theft Auto games for data storage; LLSP3 – Lego Spike program file; LOVE – format used by the LOVE2D Engine [33] MAP – format used by Halo: Combat Evolved for archive compression, Doom³, and various other games

  6. Comparison of programming languages by type system

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    This is a comparison of the features of the type systems and type checking of multiple programming languages.. Brief definitions A nominal type system means that the language decides whether types are compatible and/or equivalent based on explicit declarations and names.

  7. Python (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    Python's name is derived from the British comedy group Monty Python, whom Python creator Guido van Rossum enjoyed while developing the language. Monty Python references appear frequently in Python code and culture; [ 190 ] for example, the metasyntactic variables often used in Python literature are spam and eggs instead of the traditional foo ...

  8. File format - Wikipedia

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    A final way of storing the format of a file is to explicitly store information about the format in the file system, rather than within the file itself. This approach keeps the metadata separate from both the main data and the name, but is also less portable than either filename extensions or "magic numbers", since the format has to be converted ...

  9. BibTeX - Wikipedia

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    a .bst file (the style file), which specifies the general reference-list style and specifies how to format individual entries, and which is written by a style designer [..] in a special-purpose language [..], and.bib file(s) constituting a database of all reference-list entries the user might ever hope to use.