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232
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What is the exact difference between a 'terminal', a 'shell', a 'tty' and a 'console'?
shell
terminal
tty
console
asked Nov 16 '10 at 20:06
unix.stackexchange.com
152
votes
What is the purpose of .PHONY in a makefile?
makefile
make
asked Jan 27 '10 at 9:08
stackoverflow.com
78
votes
How does this program work?
c++
c
memory
printf
endianness
asked Mar 4 '10 at 8:16
stackoverflow.com
69
votes
How do functional programming languages work?
oop
programming-languages
haskell
functional-programming
programming-paradigms
asked May 1 '10 at 19:30
stackoverflow.com
65
votes
/usr/bin vs /usr/local/bin on Linux
filesystems
binary
asked Mar 5 '11 at 17:57
unix.stackexchange.com
63
votes
How to sort in-place using the merge sort algorithm?
arrays
algorithm
sorting
mergesort
in-place
asked Apr 3 '10 at 11:04
stackoverflow.com
57
votes
What is special about the numbers 9801, 998001, 99980001 ..?
elementary-number-theory
decimal-expansion
asked Jan 26 '12 at 17:28
math.stackexchange.com
54
votes
What does “rc” in .bashrc stand for?
bash
configuration
history
asked Oct 24 '10 at 4:49
unix.stackexchange.com
50
votes
Why should I use LaTeX?
latex-project
conceptual
asked Aug 15 '10 at 11:43
tex.stackexchange.com
47
votes
How to upload fresh code at github?
git
github
asked May 19 '10 at 15:21
stackoverflow.com
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