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Has any language become greatly popular for something other than its intended purpose?
programming-languages
history
asked May 30, 2011 at 5:59
softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
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Should the punctuation surrounding the italicised words be italicised as well?
punctuation
italics
style-manuals
asked Jan 25, 2011 at 4:59
english.stackexchange.com
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Intuition for multiple temporal dimensions
spacetime
time
dimensions
asked Nov 3, 2012 at 2:27
physics.stackexchange.com
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What is an appropriate level of granularity for component-based architecture?
architecture
entity-system
component-based
asked Jul 8, 2011 at 3:18
gamedev.stackexchange.com
26
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Send, sent; end, *ent?
verbs
pronunciation
old-english
middle-english
asked Oct 9, 2011 at 2:36
english.stackexchange.com
26
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Resolving a Circular Dependency between Template Classes
c++
templates
circular-dependency
asked Jul 28, 2010 at 14:24
stackoverflow.com
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The idiom “be a thing”
etymology
idioms
language-evolution
asked Jan 1, 2014 at 20:20
english.stackexchange.com
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How can I make C++0x and __STRICT_ANSI__ get along?
c++
gcc
c++0x
mingw
gnu
asked Apr 7, 2011 at 12:20
stackoverflow.com
23
votes
"Maybe" versus "perhaps"
adverbs
asked Feb 16, 2011 at 17:42
english.stackexchange.com
21
votes
Is there a name for the emotional response to cuteness?
single-word-requests
asked Jan 3, 2011 at 23:42
english.stackexchange.com
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Top Answers
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Is it unusual for a small company (15 developers) not to use managed source/version control?
softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
178
How do you achieve a numeric versioning scheme with Git?
softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
148
How to forward declare a template class in namespace std?
stackoverflow.com
128
Why do C++ libraries and frameworks never use smart pointers?
stackoverflow.com
123
Did English ever have a formal version of "you"?
english.stackexchange.com
118
Why is the minus sign, '-', generally not overloaded in the same way as the plus sign?
softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
106
Why is 0 false?
softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
103
Substitute X for Y
english.stackexchange.com
99
Developing a feature which sole purpose to be taken out?
softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
90
C++ Filehandling: Difference between ios::app and ios::ate?
stackoverflow.com
89
What is a higher kinded type in Scala?
stackoverflow.com
85
What makes a language Turing-complete?
softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
80
How do the tenses and aspects in English correspond temporally to one another?
english.stackexchange.com
75
Haskell - guard inside case statement
stackoverflow.com
73
In C, how would I choose whether to return a struct or a pointer to a struct?
stackoverflow.com
65
How much is too much with C++11 auto keyword?
stackoverflow.com
64
C isn't that hard: void ( *( *f[] ) () ) ()
stackoverflow.com
64
Is it "falsy" or "falsey"?
english.stackexchange.com
63
Is "authentification" a real word?
english.stackexchange.com
63
how to test a string for letters only
stackoverflow.com
62
Why might it be difficult to make a 64 bit version of a program?
softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
58
Is there a word for this emotion? Resentment over someone's good fortune without wanting it - Not quite jealousy/envy
english.stackexchange.com
56
The most mind-bending programming language?
softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
54
"used without template parameters"
stackoverflow.com
53
Is there a rule about double negations that aren't meant as double negations (e.g. "We don't need no education")?
english.stackexchange.com
53
Can manager classes be a sign of bad architecture?
softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
53
Haskell guards on lambda functions?
stackoverflow.com
53
Why don't Spanish words start with "sp"?
spanish.stackexchange.com
52
How to make the switch to C++11?
softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
52
"you" versus "You" as polite form of writing
english.stackexchange.com
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