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  2. 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 and ...

  3. Raising (syntax) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, raising constructions involve the movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.A raising predicate/verb appears with a syntactic argument that is not its semantic argument but rather the semantic argument of an embedded predicate.

  4. Exception handling (programming) - Wikipedia

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    In the most popular style, an exception is initiated by a special statement (throw or raise) with an exception object (e.g. with Java or Object Pascal) or a value of a special extendable enumerated type (e.g. with Ada or SML).

  5. Conditional (computer programming) - Wikipedia

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    In the example above, if the discount is 10%, then the first if statement will be evaluated as true and "you have to pay $30" will be printed out. All other statements below that first if statement will be skipped. The elseif statement, in the Ada language for example, is simply syntactic sugar for else followed by if.

  6. List of programming languages - Wikipedia

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    This is an index to notable programming languages, in current or historical use. Dialects of BASIC, esoteric programming languages, and markup languages are not included. A programming language does not need to be imperative or Turing-complete, but must be executable and so does not include markup languages such as HTML or XML, but does include domain-specific languages such as SQL and its ...

  7. Multiple choice - Wikipedia

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    The items of a multiple choice test are often colloquially referred to as "questions," but this is a misnomer because many items are not phrased as questions. For example, they can be presented as incomplete statements, analogies, or mathematical equations. Thus, the more general term "item" is a more appropriate label.

  8. Ubi de Feo - Wikipedia

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    EYE Film Institute Netherlands Quiz Booth [2011] [with Hello, Savants! and meg grant]: button controller for a Quiz Booth; Sit in a cozy pod and answer multiple-choice questions about movies. The software design and interaction was executed by Submarine. When you select your answer, you'll enter it into the system by pushing a button [15]

  9. Defensive programming - Wikipedia

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    Example 1: legacy code may have been designed for ASCII input but now the input is UTF-8. Example 2 : legacy code may have been compiled and tested on 32-bit architectures, but when compiled on 64-bit architectures, new arithmetic problems may occur (e.g., invalid signedness tests, invalid type casts, etc.).