December 9th, 2007 at 7:25am
An interpreted, object-oriented programming language developed by Guido van Rossum. It is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java.
The name comes from one of van Rossum’s favorite television shows, Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Python is very portable since Python interpreters are available for most operating system platforms.
Although Python is copyrighted, the source code is […]
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December 9th, 2007 at 7:24am
It is a secure specification that allows users to access information instantly via handheld wireless devices such as mobile phones, pagers, two-way radios, smartphones and communicators.
WAP supports most wireless networks. These include CDPD, CDMA, GSM, PDC, PHS, TDMA, FLEX, ReFLEX, iDEN, TETRA, DECT, DataTAC, and Mobitex.
WAP is supported by all operating systems. Ones specifically engineered […]
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December 9th, 2007 at 7:23am
Pronounced ver-mal, and short for Virtual Reality Modeling Language
VRML is a specification for displaying 3-dimensional objects on the World Wide Web. You can think of it as the 3-D equivalent of HTML.
Files written in VRML have a.wrl extension (short for world). To view these files, you need a VRML browser or a VRML plug-in to […]
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December 9th, 2007 at 7:22am
XML is a pared-down version of SGML, designed especially for Web documents. It allows designers to create their own customized tags, enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data between applications and between organizations.
Accepted as a format in 1998 to replace dependence on HTML extensions.
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