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134
votes
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
64
votes
How does this program work?
c++
c
memory
printf
endianness
asked Mar 4 '10 at 8:16
stackoverflow.com
62
votes
How do functional programming languages work?
oop
programming-languages
haskell
functional-programming
programming-paradigms
asked May 1 '10 at 19:30
stackoverflow.com
44
votes
What is special about the numbers 9801, 998001, 99980001 ..?
elementary-number-theory
decimal-expansion
asked Jan 26 at 17:28
math.stackexchange.com
35
votes
What is the purpose of .PHONY in a makefile?
makefile
make
asked Jan 27 '10 at 9:08
stackoverflow.com
34
votes
Why should I use LaTeX?
latex-project
asked Aug 15 '10 at 11:43
tex.stackexchange.com
31
votes
What does “rc” in .bashrc stand for?
bash
configuration
history
asked Oct 24 '10 at 4:49
unix.stackexchange.com
30
votes
How to sort in-place using the merge sort algorithm?
algorithm
sorting
merge
mergesort
inplace
asked Apr 3 '10 at 11:04
stackoverflow.com
29
votes
/usr/bin vs /usr/local/bin on Linux
filesystems
binary
asked Mar 5 '11 at 17:57
unix.stackexchange.com
29
votes
Why does a programming language need keywords?
c
keywords
identifiers
asked Mar 16 '10 at 5:49
stackoverflow.com
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Go to first line in a file in Gvim?
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15
What does “rc” in .bashrc stand for?
unix.stackexchange.com
11
Why is it wrong to use std::auto_ptr<> with standard containers?
stackoverflow.com
10
Auto format c file in vim
stackoverflow.com
8
How can I pack ordered text into an arbitrary 2D polygon?
stackoverflow.com
6
Undo/Redo implementation
stackoverflow.com
6
Will my audience understand the phrase “lead time”?
english.stackexchange.com
5
Generate list of all possible permutations of a string
stackoverflow.com
5
C difference between *[] and **
stackoverflow.com
5
Firefox add-ons with a rich look and feel
superuser.com
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Refusing a user permission to click a URL
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