Glossary
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===API=== Application Program Interface
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===CCR=== Code and Component Repository ===CrossPlatform=== Usually refers to a program that runs on different OS's and Platform's ===CVS=== Concurrent Versions System CVS Homepage see also SVN
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===Delphi=== An excellent commercial RAD IDE for Windows made by Borland ===diff=== A GNU program used to show the differences between two files, or even two directories. Homepage
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===FCL=== Free Component Library ===FreePascal=== A Pascal Compiler FreePascal Website
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===GDB=== GNU Debugger GDB homepage ===Gimp=== GNU Image Manipulation Program Homepage ===GNU=== From GNU's Website: GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not UNIX”; it is pronounced “guh-noo.” ===Gtk=== Gimp Tool Kit Home Page "GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces"
===GUI=== Graphical User Interface
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===IDE=== Integrated Development Enviroment
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===Kylix=== Delphi like Rad Tool for Linux made by Borland. It is compatible with Delphi, and uses QT / CLX.
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===Lazarus=== A CrossPlatform RAD IDE made with FreePascal
===LCL=== Lazarus Component Library
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===OO=== Object Oriented Extension to a procedural language which enables the creation and manipulation of complicated Objects. While Standard Pascal maintains a Record structure, in which various different data types such as integers, reals, arrays and pointers can co-exist in a pre-defined way, an object-oriented language like FreePascal allows the structure also to contain Methods (procedures and functions) for the manipulation of the data elements within the structure.
===OS=== Operating System
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===Pascal=== Pascal is a procedural programming language invented by Niklaus Wirth [1]; FreePascal, Delphi and many other variants have OO extensions
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===RAD=== Rapid Application Development
===RTL=== Runtime Library
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===SVN=== Subversion - A Versioning control system Subversion Home Page
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===VFW=== Video For Windows ===V4L=== Video For Linux
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=== Windows === An Operating System from Microsoft
