Group: data

Subtopic: data as type and value

Quote: a FAD object is a pair of items called the object's type and its value [»martJJ_1980]

Subtopic: information vs. data

Quote: distinguish information and data; e.g., an employee's salary is data that doesn't need a separate entry; access by a field [»cbb_1980, OK]

Subtopic: data is a number

Quote: a data object is a number since it is part of the initial state of a computation

Subtopic: data description

Quote: PADS is a declarative data description language for describing the physical layout and semantics of ad hoc data; generates tools for parsing, statistical profiling, conversion, and XQueries; as good or faster than Perl [»fishK6_2005]

Group: data

Group: access to data   (12 topics, 307 quotes)
Group: data structures   (12 topics, 278 quotes)
Group: data type   (34 topics, 730 quotes)
Group: data value   (19 topics, 433 quotes)
Group: parameters   (10 topics, 145 quotes)
Group: procedure and type-valued variables   (4 topics, 95 quotes)
Group: replacement or assignment   (5 topics, 38 quotes)
Group: sequences   (7 topics, 97 quotes)
Group: sequence operations   (7 topics, 85 quotes)
Group: type checking   (12 topics, 392 quotes)
Group: type declaration   (5 topics, 110 quotes)
Group: variables   (10 topics, 128 quotes)

Topic: data as a named set of data objects (22 items)
Topic: data compression algorithms (53 items)
Topic: object modification
(10 items)

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