Computer science reference Computer science reference An ABEND (or abnormal end or abend) is an abnormal termination of software, a Crash or lossage. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abnormal end"
In computer science and related disciplines, "considered harmful" is a phrase popularly used in the titles of diatribes and other critical essays. It originates with Edsger Dijkstra's letter "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" , published in the March 1968 Communications of the ACM, in which he criticized the excessive use of the GOTO statement in the programming languages of the day and advocated structured programming instead. Structured programming is not as widely debated in contemporary computer science, but the pithy and adaptable phrase "X considered harmful" (actually the invention of the ACM editor Niklaus Wirth, and not Dijkstra) continues to be used to indicate that an article contains controversial and strongly asserted views. ...more on Wikipedia about "Considered harmful"
The context of an event includes the circumstances and conditions which "surround" it; the context of a word, sentence, or longer utterance or text includes the words that "surround" it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Context"
In computing, a patch is a small piece of software designed to update or fix problems with a computer program. This includes fixing bugs, replacing graphics and improving the usability or performance. The term probably originates from the Unix patch command written by Larry Wall. Though meant to fix problems, badly designed patches can sometimes introduce new problems. ...more on Wikipedia about "Patch (computing)"
In information processing, a state is the complete set of properties (for example, its energy level, etc. see state (physics)) transmitted by an object to an observer via one or more channels. Any change in the nature or quantity of such properties in a state is detected by an observer and thus a transmission of information occurs. ...more on Wikipedia about "State (computer science)"
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