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Encyclopedia - Comment: Encyclopedia - Comment
In computer programming, comments are parts of the source code which, together with its layout, are used to explain the code. Such commen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Smith Lexicographer: Encyclopedia - William Smith Lexicographer
Sir William Smith (1813 - 1893), English lexicographer, was born at Enfield in 1813 of Nonconformist parents. He was originally destined ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wilfrid Laurier: Encyclopedia Ii - Wilfrid Laurier - Early Career
Before the Liberals, Laurier was a member of the radical Rouge wing of Quebec politics. He became disenchanted with extremism and ideolog...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Academic Degree: Encyclopedia Ii - Academic Degree - Types Of Academic Degrees
Some examples of specific degrees follow each general term. For more information, see the article about the general term. Associate's de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Leonard Cheshire: Encyclopedia Ii - Leonard Cheshire - Military Career
After the outbreak of the World War II, Cheshire applied for a commission in the Royal Air Force and was initially posted to 102 Squadron...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - James Prescott Joule: Encyclopedia Ii - James Prescott Joule - Life
James Prescott Joule - Early years. The son of Benjamin Joule (1784–1858), a wealthy brewer, Joule was tutored at home until 1834 whe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Diefenbaker: Encyclopedia Ii - John Diefenbaker - Early Career
John George Diefenbaker served briefly in World War I in the Canadian Army from March 1916 to July 1917, acquiring the rank of lieutenant...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Openvms: Encyclopedia Ii - Openvms - Features
OpenVMS can be divided into three layers: The kernel, made up of input/output, memory management, and process/time management subsystems...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hello World Program: Encyclopedia Ii - Hello World Program - Text User Interface Known As Tui Console Or Line-oriented
Hello world program - 4DOS batch. It should be noted that the 4DOS/4NT batch language is a superset of the MS-DOS batch language. @ech...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shell Script: Encyclopedia Ii - Shell Script - Capabilities
In their most basic form, shell scripts allow several commands that would be entered "by hand" at a command-line interface to be executed...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Robert Laird Borden: Encyclopedia Ii - Robert Laird Borden - Political Career 1896-1920
He was elected as a Member of Parliament for Halifax in the 1896 federal election, the same election in which Laurier became PM. Borden b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Louis St. Laurent: Encyclopedia Ii - Louis St. Laurent - Prime Minister Of Canada
In 1948, King retired, and quietly persuaded his senior ministers to support St. Laurent's selection as the new Liberal leader at the Lib...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John A. Macdonald: Encyclopedia Ii - John A. Macdonald - Political Rise
In 1843 Macdonald exhibited his first interest in politics. He was elected as alderman of the City of Kingston, Ontario. The next year he...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Comment: Encyclopedia Ii - Comment - Examples
Comment - Summary. (the word "comment" in italics is used here, as an example of a comment): Ada, SPARK, VHDL, ANSI SQL, and TSQL: --...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vincent Massey: Encyclopedia Ii - Vincent Massey - Governor General
With his appointment as Governor General in 1952, a new tradition began – he was the first Canadian appointed to the post, and from tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Diefenbaker: Encyclopedia Ii - John Diefenbaker - Early Career
John George Diefenbaker served briefly in World War I in the Canadian Army from March 1916 to July 1917, acquiring the rank of lieutenant...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hello World Program: Encyclopedia Ii - Hello World Program - Text User Interface Known As Tui Console Or Line-oriented
Hello world program - 4GL - Computer Associates with Ingres/DB. message "Hello, world!" with style = popup; Hello world program - AB...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sql: Encyclopedia Ii - Sql - Sql Keywords
SQL keywords fall into several groups. SQL - Data retrieval. The most frequently used operation in transactional databases is the data ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Digital Equipment Corporation: Encyclopedia Ii - Digital Equipment Corporation - History
The company was founded in 1957 by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson, two engineers who had been working at MIT Lincoln Laboratory on the TX-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Degrees Of Oxford University: Encyclopedia Ii - Degrees Of Oxford University - Postgraduate Degrees
Degrees of Oxford University - Bachelors' degrees. Bachelor of Divinity (BD) Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (BM BCh) B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Academic Degree: Encyclopedia Ii - Academic Degree - Types Of Academic Degree
Some examples of specific degrees follow each general term. For more information, see the article about the general term. Associate's de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eugene Forsey: Encyclopedia Ii - Eugene Forsey - Biography
Born in Grand Bank, Newfoundland and Labrador, he attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Forsey was a supporter of Conservative ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Comment: Encyclopedia Ii - Comment - Usage
Comments could summarise code or explain the programmer's intent. This is called the why rather than how approach. The two are often clos...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Leonard Cheshire: Encyclopedia Ii - Leonard Cheshire - Change Of Direction
On his 101st mission, he was official British observer of the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, from The Great Artiste, an event which profoun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Diefenbaker: Encyclopedia Ii - John Diefenbaker - Party Leader And Member Of Parliament
Diefenbaker lost the 1963 federal election to Lester Pearson and the Liberals. Nevertheless he continued as PC party leader after the 196...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Diefenbaker: Encyclopedia Ii - John Diefenbaker - Supreme Court Appointments
Diefenbaker appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of Canada: Ronald Martland Wilfred Judson Roland Almon Ritchie Emmett ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Louis St. Laurent: Encyclopedia Ii - Louis St. Laurent - Early Life And Career
Louis St. Laurent (pronounced [lwi sɛ̃ lo.ʁɑ̃]) was born in Compton in Quebec's Eastern Townships to a French-Canadian father and Ir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Robert Laird Borden: Encyclopedia Ii - Robert Laird Borden - Early Life And Career
He was born and educated in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, an agricultural community at the northern end of the Annapolis Valley where his great...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Academic Degree: Encyclopedia Ii - Academic Degree - History
The first universities were founded in Byzantium in the 5th century (in Constantinopolis and Athens), and the first universities in weste...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vincent Massey: Encyclopedia Ii - Vincent Massey - Background
Vincent Massey was the son of Chester D. Massey who owned the Massey-Ferguson Tractor Company. The family was one of Toronto's wealthiest...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vincent Massey: Encyclopedia Ii - Vincent Massey - Diplomatic Career
In 1926, King appointed Massey the first Canadian envoy to the United States of America with the rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vincent Massey: Encyclopedia Ii - Vincent Massey - Later Life
After his term as Governor General, he retired to Batterwood, his home near Port Hope, Ontario, and he continued to chair the Massey Foun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wilfrid Laurier: Encyclopedia Ii - Wilfrid Laurier - Opposition And War
Laurier led the opposition during World War I. He was an influential opponent of conscription, which led to the Conscription Crisis of 19...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wilfrid Laurier: Encyclopedia Ii - Wilfrid Laurier - Prime Minister
Laurier led Canada during a period of rapid growth, industrialization, and immigration. His long career straddles a period of major polit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Louis St. Laurent: Encyclopedia Ii - Louis St. Laurent - Defeat In The 1957 Election
The defeat in the 1957 was marked by controversy within the Liberal party and the Parliament. The Liberals had actually won more popular ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Openvms: Encyclopedia Ii - Openvms - History
OpenVMS - Origin and name changes. In April, 1975, DIGITAL embarked on a hardware project, code named Star, to design a 32-bit virtual ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John A. Macdonald: Encyclopedia Ii - John A. Macdonald - Prime Minister
As Prime Minister, Macdonald's vision was to enlarge the country and unify it. Accordingly, under his rule Canada bought Rupert's Land an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Louis St. Laurent: Encyclopedia Ii - Louis St. Laurent - Appointment To The Mackenzie King Cabinet
Needing strong ministers from Quebec, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King recruited St. Laurent to his wartime Cabinet as Minister...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hello World Program: Encyclopedia Ii - Hello World Program - Introduction
Such a program is typically one of the simplest programs possible in a computer language. Some, however, are surprisingly complex, especi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hello World Program: Encyclopedia Ii - Hello World Program - Document Formats
Hello world program - ASCII. The following sequence of characters, expressed in hexadecimal notation (with carriage return and newline ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hello World Program: Encyclopedia Ii - Hello World Program - Page Description Languages
Hello world program - XHTML 1.1. (Using UTF-8 character set.) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hello World Program: Encyclopedia Ii - Hello World Program - Media-based Scripting Languges
Hello world program - AviSynth. BlankClip() Subtitle("Hello, world!") (Creates a video with default properties) Hello world program ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - James Prescott Joule: Encyclopedia Ii - James Prescott Joule - Work
James Prescott Joule - Reception and priority. For the controversy over priority with Mayer, see Mechanical equivalent of heat: Priori...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hello World Program: Encyclopedia Ii - Hello World Program - Graphical User Interfaces Guis
Hello world program - ActionScript Macromedia flash mx. this.createTextField("hello_txt",0,10,10,100,20); this.hello_txt.text="Hello...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Degrees Of Oxford University: Encyclopedia Ii - Degrees Of Oxford University - Order Of Academic Standing
Members of the University of Oxford are ranked in the following order according to their degree. The order is as follows: Doctor of Divi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Comment: Encyclopedia Ii - Comment - Styles
Comment styles are often agreed upon before a project starts. Usually programmers prefer styles that are easy to modify and difficult to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Comment: Encyclopedia Ii - Comment - Automatic Documentation Generation
Some programming tools can read structured information in comments in order to generate documentation automatically. Examples include the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Degrees Of Oxford University: Encyclopedia Ii - Degrees Of Oxford University - Undergraduate Degrees
Degrees of Oxford University - Undergraduate masters degrees. In the 1990s the degrees of Master of Engineering, etc., were introduced ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Degrees Of Oxford University: Encyclopedia Ii - Degrees Of Oxford University - The Degree Of Master Of Arts
Degrees of Oxford University - Significance of the MA. Despite the fact that no greater academic achievement is involved, the MA remain...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Diefenbaker: Encyclopedia Ii - John Diefenbaker - Prime Minister Of Canada
He led the national Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1956-1967, and was Prime Minister of Canada from June 21, 1957 to April...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Diefenbaker: Encyclopedia Ii - John Diefenbaker - Party Leader And Member Of Parliament
Diefenbaker lost the 1963 federal election to Lester Pearson and the Liberals. Diefenbaker continued as PC party leader after the 1963 el...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hello World Program: Encyclopedia Ii - Hello World Program - Graphical User Interfaces Guis
Hello world program - ActionScript Macromedia flash mx. this.createTextField("hello_txt",0,10,10,100,20); this.hello_txt.text="Hello...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hello World Program: Encyclopedia Ii - Hello World Program - Document Formats
Hello world program - ASCII. The following sequence of characters, expressed in hexadecimal notation (with carriage return and newline ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hello World Program: Encyclopedia Ii - Hello World Program - Page Description Languages
Hello world program - XHTML 1.1. (Using UTF-8 character set.) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hello World Program: Encyclopedia Ii - Hello World Program - Media-based Scripting Languges
Hello world program - AviSynth. BlankClip() Subtitle("Hello, world!") (Creates a video with default properties) Hello world program ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Academic Degree: Encyclopedia Ii - Academic Degree - History
The first universities were founded in Byzantium in the 5th century (in Constantinopolis and Athens), and the first universities in weste...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sql: Encyclopedia Ii - Sql - Criticisms Of Sql
Technically, SQL is a declarative computer language for use with "relational databases". Theorists note that many of the original SQL fea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Diefenbaker: Encyclopedia Ii - John Diefenbaker - Legacy
In 1967, the boyhood home of Diefenbaker was moved from Borden, Saskatchewan to Wascana Park in Regina, Saskatchewan. In 2001, the Wascan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sql: Encyclopedia Ii - Sql - History
A seminal paper, "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks", by Dr. Edgar F. Codd, was published in June, 1970 in the Assoc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sql: Encyclopedia Ii - Sql - Scope
The SQL standard is not freely available. SQL:2003 may be purchased from ISO or ANSI. A late draft is available as a zip archive from Whi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John A. Macdonald: Encyclopedia Ii - John A. Macdonald - Father Of Confederation
At this point in Macdonald's career, he began to look to the future of politics in his region. He was the leader of arguably the largest ...   » Read the article