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Several humorously-named fictional characters appear in the book: ...d that the book was not easy to read, but that it would expose experienced programmers to both old and new topics.<ref name="kilov198611">{{cite book|url=https:// ...

...tisers who wish to [[Product placement|embed products]] in his stories and programmers who demand to let a computer generate the conclusion to his unfinished nove ...no-Ugaric' group, have both disappeared. As Calvino concludes the alleged, fictional encyclopedia entry concerning Cimmeria: "In successive territorial division ...

{{short description|Fictional character from Star Trek}} [[Lieutenant (navy)|Lieutenant]] '''Thomas Eugene "Tom" Paris''' is a fictional character in the American [[science fiction]] television series ''[[Star Tr ...

...nd 2006 are all set during [[World War II]] and follow the adventures of a fictional [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] [[Commandos (United Kingdom)|commando]] u ...nemy Lines'', with the first 5 missions, was also made by Russian homebrew programmers, but lacked sound and certain other features of the PC version. ...

...g or referencing any actual code. Then Phoenix brought in a second team of programmers who had no prior knowledge of the IBM BIOS and had never seen its code. Wor ...lt and Catch Fire]]'', a key plot point from the second episode is how the fictional Cardiff Electric computer company placed an engineer in a clean room to imp ...

...y Platform" usually have double (or multiple) meanings. A fictional future programmers union is called "Information Workers of the World Wide Web", or the ''Webbl ...

...term "hacker" started out with a benign definition: It described computer programmers who were especially adept at solving technical problems. By the mid-1990s, ...he help of many others). ''[[23 (film)|23]]'', a German film adaption with fictional elements, shows the events from the attackers' perspective. Stoll described ...

...ss ever conceived".<ref name="Cite EWD|475"/> EWD 443 (1974) describes his fictional company as having over 75% of the world's market share.<ref>{{Cite EWD|443} ..."''Go To statement considered harmful''"'', caused a major debate. Modern programmers generally adhere to the paradigm of structured programming.<ref>{{Cite web ...

'''Reginald Endicott Barclay III'''<ref name="1997-08 STTOMM" /> is a fictional [[engineer]] from [[Star Trek|the ''Star Trek'' media franchise]]. On telev [[Category:Fictional people with hypochondriasis]] ...

...created animated versions of the characters and an office backdrop for the programmers to practice on.<ref name="Golden"/> In 1992, LucasArts offered Purcell the [[Category:Fictional characters who break the fourth wall]] ...

...ds]], a [[Neopagan]] religious organization modeled in many ways after the fictional organization in the novel.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cusack |first=Carole M. ...me common parlance among science fiction fans, hippies, and later computer programmers<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins ...

...998. Set in "City of the Damned", [[capital city]] of the [[dark fantasy]] fictional world of Silverspring, the series was one of the first to combine 3D realis ...

...making level ideas, and voicing Jim's character, while Perry and the other programmers created additional characters and game mechanics.<ref name="killscreendaily [[Category:Video games set on fictional planets]] ...

...lation that is awkward or impossible with standard spreadsheet techniques. Programmers may write code directly using the Visual Basic Editor (VBE), which includes Programmers have produced [[Application programming interface|APIs]] to open Excel spre ...

A group of volunteer programmers created ''[[Ultima V: Lazarus]]'' in 2005, a remake of ''Ultima V'' using t --><!-- Red link, notability not established: Another group of volunteer programmers created ''[[Ultima VI Project]]'' in 2010, a remake of ''Ultima VI'' also u ...

...graphics. These games were popularized among college students and computer programmers of the 1980s and 1990s, leading to hundreds of variants. Some of the better The creation of roguelike games came from hobbyist programmers and [[hack (computing)|computer hackers]], attempting to create games for t ...

{{short description|Fictional universe created by Iain M. Banks}} {{About|the fictional civilisation in Iain M. Banks' ''Culture'' series|other uses|Culture (disam ...

...ring a domain name. For instance, [[Experts-exchange|Experts Exchange]], a programmers' discussion site, used ''expertsexchange.com'', but changed its domain name ...ious domain names have also employed firms such as [[MarkMonitor]] to park fictional domain names in order to prevent misuse by third parties.<ref name="Alleman ...

...have done their best to make it reasonably easy to modify..., even for non-programmers."<ref>[[#SMACManual|Reynolds (1999)]], p.207.</ref><ref>[http://www.civgami ...ctive".<ref name=DD698p3/> He also commented that ''Alpha Centauri''{{'}}s fictional nature allowed them to draw their characters "a lot more sharply and distin ...