Common Lisp is defined by a specification ( like Ada and C ) rather than by one implementation ( like Perl before version 6 ).

A request line containing only the path name is accepted by servers to maintain compatibility with HTTP clients before the HTTP / 1. 0 specification in RFC 1945.

However, further experience might result in a change or even retraction of the specification before it advances.

* Sometimes, especially in the Microsoft world, it refers to a now-obsolete variant of XSLT developed and shipped by Microsoft as part of MSXML before the W3C specification was finalized

Although Z notation ( just like the APL language, long before it ) uses many non-ASCII symbols, the specification includes suggestions for rendering the Z notation symbols in ASCII and in LaTeX.

In computer programming, a precondition is a condition or predicate that must always be true just prior to the execution of some section of code or before an operation in a formal specification.

This was before what is now the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition was made into a specification.

Since Niklaus Wirth went on to develop languages such as Modula and Oberon ( where one could define a module before knowing about the entire program specification ), one can infer that top down programming was not strictly what he promoted.

In order to work around this issue, the specification allows the programmer to ( in C #) place the at-sign before the identifier which forces it to be considered an identifier rather than a reserved word by the compiler.

Since a primary design specification of x86 microprocessors is that they are fully backwards compatible with software written for all x86 chips before them, the 286 chip was made to start in ' real mode ' – that is, in a mode which turned off the new memory protection features, so that it could run operating systems written for the 8086 and the 80186.

In the end it took eight long years before the specification was finally agreed on in 1987.

It seems unlikely that ζ as used here can meaningfully be regarded as an electrochemical potential, because of obvious difficulties in giving a real-world specification of the " standard state " in which the electron existed before it was added to the body under analysis.

Other variants are reserved or exist for backward compatibility reasons ( e. g. for values assigned before the UUID specification was produced ).

Chip manufacturers publish a " maximum clock rate " specification, and they test chips before selling them to make sure they meet that specification, even when executing the most complicated instructions with the data patterns that take the longest to settle ( testing at the temperature and voltage that runs the lowest performance ).

To be more precise, we call reputation transmission a communication of an evaluation without the specification of the evaluator, if not for a group attribution, and only in the default sense discussed before.

This specification now says that not only is only derived from itself, but that before is called must be strictly less than the last possible value of its type and that afterwards will be equal to the initial value of plus one — no more and no less.

Some organizations write the unit tests before writing the code, using the software design as a module specification.

He also realised, as had Walter A. Shewhart and others before him, that excessive variation lay at the root of poor manufactured quality and that reacting to individual items inside and outside specification was counterproductive.

The original DX7 included MIDI ports, but was released shortly before the specification was completed.

The plan was for Andial, the then equivalent of what is now Porsche Motorsport USA, to convert these cars to full racing specification, however, due to lack of sponsor support for the Carrera Cup series, it was cancelled before it began.

The first specification of the CHILL language was published in 1980, a few years before Ada.

The Class 89 locomotive was designed by Brush Traction of Loughborough to meet a specification issued by British Rail, which subsequently changed the requirements, but not before Brush had already committed to build the prototype locomotive.

All Khronos members are able to contribute to the development of Khronos API specifications, are empowered to vote at various stages before public deployment, and are able to accelerate the delivery of their cutting-edge 3D platforms and applications through early access to specification drafts and conformance tests.

It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.

Underlying these conceptions of mimesis are certain presuppositions concerning the nature of primary human experience which require some exposition before the main argument can proceed.

In no other situation would a group of doctors, struggling competently to improve the life expectancy of a man beloved by the world, be subjected to such merciless and persistent questioning, and before they were prepared to demonstrate the kind of verbal precision which alone can clarify for mankind the problems it faces.

Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.

Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.

In a pessimistic assessment of the cold war, Eden declared: `` There must be much closer unity within the West before there can be effective negotiation with the East ''.

And there must be many Soviet citizens who know what is going on and who realize that before they can hope to enjoy the full life promised for 1980 they and their children must first survive.

We must, first of all, be willing to forgive others before we can secure God's forgiveness.

It can manifest itself before discharge from service, or it can come out years later.

Moreover, on complex projects, design work must be completed and orders for machinery and equipment placed months or even years before construction can commence.

or a skilled labor force is trained before there are plants available in which they can be employed.

The extent to which we can persuade the less developed countries to appraise their own resources, to set targets toward which they should be working, to establish in the light of this forward perspective the most urgent priorities for their immediate attention, and to do the other things which they must do to help themselves, all on a realistic long-term basis, will depend importantly on the incentives we place before them.

Trustees, faculty, and administration can consider the consequences of decisions before they are made, instead of afterwards.

If your state has no provisions for the numbering of pleasure boats, you must apply for a number from the U.S. Coast Guard for any kind of boat with mechanical propulsion rated at more than 10 horsepower before it can be used on Federal waterways.

Number all the tappet bars before removing them so they can be replaced in the same slots.

Consider what you can afford to spend and what your goals are before setting up or revamping your employee benefit program.

You can wait, of course, until you arrive in Europe before renting your car.

If you plan to visit any of these countries, you can obtain your International Driving Permit before you leave at a nominal fee -- around $3.00.

In this way, numerical values for the relative efficacy of various detergent formulations can be obtained by measuring the reflectance ( whiteness ) of the cloth swatches before and after washing.

The mechanism of action of these drugs has not been completely worked out, but certain of them appear to act by reducing the oxidised form of iodine before it can iodinate thyroglobulin ( Astwood, 1954 ).

in working with these patients the therapist eventually gets to do some at least private mulling over of the possible meaning of a belch, or the passage of flatus, not only because he is reduced to this for lack of anything else to analyze, but also because he learns that even these animal-like sounds constitute forms of communication in which, from time to time, quite different things are being said, long before the patient can become sufficiently aware of these, as distinct feelings and concepts, to say them in words.

Interesting evidence can be found in the results of the Chamber of Commerce elections, which took place three weeks before national elections.

Fourth, in the segregated school system, during the period before desegregation, how can we assure equal opportunity??

But before we can do this, we must first find answers to our original questions 1 and 2 ; ;