Actually, I thought the term "line" was supposed to mean "statement" when you start using it as a metric for measuring program size. (In other words, it originated from times when programming languages only allowed one statement per line.)
I remember a presentation in one of my classes where the presenter said her company defines "line" this way when they measure the size of their code. She said there was actually a more complicated definition that they used but it was basically one statment equals one "line".
Believe or not, similar incidents have occurred before.
o 1945 - A village a short distance from Almera in Spain (New York Time 5th July 1945).
"Spontaneous Combustion Puzzles Spanish Farmers" New York Times, 5 July 1945, page 3.
The article describes a "meterological phenonmeonon" in a faming area near Almeria, where "clothing, bulidings, and farm insturments suddenly burst into flames."
Although this is an unxplained spontaneous combustion, I don't see enough similarity (there are no electrionic devices?). Just wanted to let others know the title and page of the article as well as my opinion of the lack of similarity.
Num Lock turns on the number mode of the numeric keypad. Caps Lock turns on the capital mode of the alphabetic keys. Scroll Lock turns on the scroll mode of the cursor keys.
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Actually, I thought the term "line" was supposed to mean "statement" when you start using it as a metric for measuring program size. (In other words, it originated from times when programming languages only allowed one statement per line.)
I remember a presentation in one of my classes where the presenter said her company defines "line" this way when they measure the size of their code. She said there was actually a more complicated definition that they used but it was basically one statment equals one "line".
Quickmath is a web-interface to Mathematica for certain types of problems. I use it to solve systems of equations every now and then.
Believe or not, similar incidents have occurred before.
o 1945 - A village a short distance from Almera in Spain (New York Time 5th July 1945).
"Spontaneous Combustion Puzzles Spanish Farmers"
New York Times, 5 July 1945, page 3.
The article describes a "meterological phenonmeonon" in a faming area near Almeria, where "clothing, bulidings, and farm insturments suddenly burst into flames."
Although this is an unxplained spontaneous combustion, I don't see enough similarity (there are no electrionic devices?). Just wanted to let others know the title and page of the article as well as my opinion of the lack of similarity.
It should have been called "cursor lock."
"Scroll Lock" makes sense to me:
Num Lock turns on the number mode of the numeric keypad.
Caps Lock turns on the capital mode of the alphabetic keys.
Scroll Lock turns on the scroll mode of the cursor keys.