A situation that occurs when a software application requires specific versions of libraries or software components that are incompatible with other required versions, leading to complex dependencies that are difficult to resolve.

"Dependency hell can be mitigated by using virtual environments and careful management of package versions."

The process in which a function calls itself directly or indirectly.

"Recursion is used for solving problems that can be broken down into smaller, repetitive problems."

A colloquial term for the degradation or corruption of data over time, especially in storage or rarely used software components.

"Old hard drives and floppy disks are prone to bit rot, leading to loss of data."

Statements in programming that perform different actions depending on whether a specified boolean condition evaluates to true or false.

"Using conditionals allows developers to control the flow of their programs with if, else if, and else statements."

A format for the arrangement of bytes in which the least significant value in the sequence is stored at the lowest storage address.

"Little-endian is the byte order used by x86 processors, where the least significant byte is stored first."