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Computer program or file valid in multiple programming languages or file formats
In computing, a polyglot is a computer program or script written in a valid form of multiple programming languages or file formats. The name was coined by analogy to multilingualism. A polyglot file is composed by combining syntax from two or more different formats. Wikipedia →
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📚 Books worth reading
Dictionnaire d'informatiqueMichel Ginguay · 1971
EuroWordNetPiek Vossen · 1998- 📕Datenerfassung, ProgrammierungErich Bürger, E. Burger · 1976
- 📕Wörterbuch InformationsverarbeitungErich Bürger · 1979
Technical dictionary of data processing, computers, office machinesErich Bürger · 1970- 📕Anglo-russko-nemet͡s︡ko-frant͡s︡uzskiĭ tolkovyĭ slovarʹ po vychislitelʹnoĭ tekhnike i obrabotke dannykhAleksandr Iosifovich Shishmarev · 1978
- 📕Elsevier's dictionary of computers, automatic control and data processingWillem Elbertus Clason · 1971
- 📕Multilingual Dictionary of It SecurityOtto Vollnhals · 1999
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