programming
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)
- setting an order and time for planned eventsSynonyms: schedulingprogramingType of planningKinds broadcast programming, broadcast scheduling
- creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do somethingSynonyms: programingcomputer programmingcomputer programingType of creating by mental actsKinds imperative programming, logic programming, mathematical programming, agent-based model, object-oriented programming
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Translations
Noun act of writing a computer program
- Spanish
- programación
- French
- programmation
- German
- Programmierung
- Italian
- programmazione
- Portuguese
- programação
- Turkish
- programlama
- Russian
- программи́рование programmírovanije
- Arabic
- بَرْمَجَة barmaja
- Chinese
- 编程 biānchéng
- Japanese
- プログラミング puroguramingu
18 more languages
- Dutch
- programmeren
- Polish
- programowanie
- Swedish
- programmering
- Greek
- προγραμματισμός programmatismós
- Korean
- 프로그래밍 peurogeuraeming
- Indonesian
- pemrograman
- Vietnamese
- lập trình
- Hungarian
- programozás
- Portuguese (PT)
- programação
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 編程 biānchéng
- Catalan
- programació
- Czech
- programování
- Finnish
- ohjelmointi
- Hebrew
- תִּכְנוּת tikhnut
- Icelandic
- forritun
- Kurdish
- bernamekirin
- Norwegian
- programmering
- Romanian
- programare
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
1.The art of debugging a blank sheet of paper (or, in these days of on-line editing, the art of debugging an empty file).
2.A pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward.
3.The most fun you can have with your clothes on (although clothes are not mandatory). [Jargon File]
(2003-02-12)
The Jargon File
1.The art of debugging a blank sheet of paper (or, in these days of on-line editing, the art of debugging an empty file). “Bloody instructions which, being taught, return to plague their inventor” (Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7)
2.A pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward.
3.The most fun you can have with your clothes on.
4.The least fun you can have with your clothes off.