A sequence of bits that can be used to set, clear, and toggle individual bits in a set of data.
"bitmasks are often used in programming to handle sets of binary options efficiently."
A reserved word in a programming language that is used to perform specific actions or to indicate specific commands or parameters.
"In many programming languages, 'if', 'else', 'while', and 'return' are examples of keywords that cannot be used as variable names."
A programming language developed by AT&T Bell Laboratories in the late 1980s, known for its simplicity, expressiveness, and powerful string processing capabilities, often used for system administration and text processing tasks on Unix-like operating systems.
"The script was written in W to extract data from log files and generate reports."
A special type of subroutine called to create an object. It prepares the new object for use, often accepting arguments that the constructor uses to set required member variables.
"In Java, a constructor has the same name as the class and is used to initialize objects of that class."