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Synon Ltd was founded in London in 1984 [1] by Simon Williams , Melinda Horton and Nick Knowles with the objective of developing an application generator for the IBM System/38 platform. They were soon joined by Simon Haigh (VP Sales).
In 2003, a poll conducted by GameDev.net showed Lua was the most popular scripting language for game programming. [29] On 12 January 2012, Lua was announced as a winner of the Front Line Award 2011 from the magazine Game Developer in the category Programming Tools. [30]
Sandcastle is a documentation generator from Microsoft. It automatically produces MSDN-style code documentation out of reflection information of .NET assemblies and XML documentation comments found in the source code of these assemblies.
Flex (fast lexical analyzer generator) is a free and open-source software alternative to lex. [2] It is a computer program that generates lexical analyzers (also known as "scanners" or "lexers").
There are subtle differences and distinctions in the use of the terms "generator" and "iterator", which vary between authors and languages. [5] In Python, a generator is an iterator constructor: a function that returns an iterator. An example of a Python generator returning an iterator for the Fibonacci numbers using Python's yield statement ...
In computer programming, glue code is code that allows components to interoperate that otherwise are incompatible. The adapter pattern describes glue code as a software design pattern . Glue code describes language bindings or foreign function interfaces such as the Java Native Interface (JNI).
A fourth-generation programming language (4GL) is a high-level computer programming language that belongs to a class of languages envisioned as an advancement upon third-generation programming languages (3GL).
A program that translates from a low-level language to a higher level one is a decompiler. [63] A program that translates into an object code format that is not supported on the compilation machine is called a cross compiler and is commonly used to prepare code for execution on embedded software applications. [64] [better source needed]