Glossary for Comments
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A Glossary for Program Comments
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[edit] What goes in comments?
- Gibberish
- Idiolect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiolect
- Natural Language: Albanian, Chinense, Danish, English, French, German, etc.
- Poetry
- PseudoCode http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Courses/cs482/2003su/handouts/pseudocode.pdf
[edit] Glossary
[edit] A
- allocate, v.
- choose variable name
- assign value to variable
- assign, v.,
[edit] L
- lookup table, n., a table with a Primary Key that contains columns with text explanations;
fact tables are linked to lookup tables with FactTable.ForeignKey = LookUpTable.PrimaryKey; database term: dimension table; SAS shortcut: formats;
[edit] M
- make
[edit] O
- order, v., by-var,
[edit] P
- partition,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_%28database%29
[edit] S
- set,
- n., a list of items,
- v., to assign
- stratify, v., to arrange, to order, to stack: use by-var with procedures; proc freq cross-tab: tables A * B;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratify
[edit] U
- unique, to make unique: proc sort data = ... noduprecs|nodupkey; by by-var(s);
--macro maven == the radical programmer 14:51, 13 June 2008 (EDT)
