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Software versioning is the process of assigning either unique version names or unique version numbers to unique states of computer software. Within a given version number category (e.g., major or minor), these numbers are generally assigned in increasing order and correspond to new developments in the software.
The rise of the Internet and cloud computing enabled a new model, software as a service (SaaS), [19] in which the provider hosts the software (usually built on top of rented infrastructure or platforms) [20] and provides the use of the software to customers, often in exchange for a subscription fee. [18]
The word "fork" has been used to mean "to divide in branches, go separate ways" as early as the 14th century. [2] In the software environment, the word evokes the fork system call, which causes a running process to split itself into two (almost) identical copies that (typically) diverge to perform different tasks.
Spaghetti code is a pejorative phrase for difficult-to-maintain and unstructured computer source code.Code being developed with poor structure can be due to any of several factors, such as volatile project requirements, lack of programming style rules, and software engineers with insufficient ability or experience.
In software development, obfuscation is the act of creating source or machine code that is difficult for humans or computers to understand. Like obfuscation in natural language, it may use needlessly roundabout expressions to compose statements.
Character.ai was established in November 2021. [8] The company's co-founders, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, were both engineers from Google. [9] While at Google, the co-founders both worked on AI-related projects: Shazeer was a lead author on a paper that Business Insider reported in April 2023 "has been widely cited as key to today's chatbots", [10] and De Freitas was the lead designer ...
Google Maps first started as a C++ program designed by two Danish brothers, Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen, and Noel Gordon and Stephen Ma, at the Sydney-based company Where 2 Technologies, which was founded in early 2003.