One endpoint of a two-way communication link between two programs running on the network.

"Sockets are used to connect applications running on different JREs (Java Runtime Environments)."

A humorous term referring to the hope that simply rebuilding a project or system will somehow fix a problem without understanding the underlying cause.

"Relying on the magic rebuild fairy often leads to wasted time and frustration when the same issues reoccur."

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."