Efforts have been made to port Coda onto Microsoft Windows platforms, from the Windows 95 / Windows 98 era, Windows NT to Windows XP, by means of open source projects like the DJGCC DOS C Compiler and Cygwin.

This means that developers do not need a Windows installation with MSYS to compile software that will run on Windows without Cygwin.

Although programs can alter the position of the screen in memory, the non-linear format of the display means that vertical scrolling can only be done in blocks of 8 pixels without further work.

* Error-trapping, allowing BASIC programs to handle unexpected errors by means of a subroutine written in BASIC

Binary compatibility means that programs can work correctly with the new version of this library without requiring recompilation.

Rendering is the process of generating an image from a model ( or models in what collectively could be called a scene file ), by means of computer programs.

* Buffer overflow means that a program writes data to the end of its allocated space and then continues to write data to memory that belongs to other programs.

A database needs built-in security means to protect its content ( and users ) from dangers of unauthorized users ( either humans or programs ).

In general the term " data independence " means that changes in the database's structure do not require changes in its application's computer programs, and that changes in the database at a certain architectural level ( see below ) do not affect the database's levels above.

The expert system uses a rule base, unlike conventional programs, which means that the volume of knowledge to program is not a major concern.

He defines functional programs as being built up in a hierarchical way by means of " combining forms " that allow an " algebra of programs "; in modern language, this means that functional programs follow the principle of compositionality.

Computer programs typically comprise several parts or modules ; all these parts / modules need not be contained within a single object file, and in such case refer to each other by means of symbols.

Since all services are performed by usermode programs, efficient means of communication between programs are essential, far more so than in monolithic kernels.

During the 1980s, macro programs – originally SmartKey, then SuperKey, KeyWorks, Prokey – were very popular, first as a means to automatically format screenplays, then for a variety of user input tasks.

Prolog programs describe relations, defined by means of clauses.

Intuitively, this means there are computational limits on what can be proven by computer programs.

He defended vigorously the newly implemented universal health care and regional development programs as means of making society more just.

* Rendering ( computer graphics ), generating an image from a model by means of computer programs

FARC has called for crop substitution programs that would allow coca farmers to find alternative means of income and subsistence.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

As a means of silencing a discussion which ought to have taken place, the statement is an effective one: we sympathize with the universal confusion which gives rise to such convictions.

Instead it means that the thinking in which decision issues has the power to determine the morality of the decision, as in this instance the pressure for renewed practical or legislative attention to the constitutional problems the decision had uncovered might have done.

This means that the inception of change itself can begin only when the factors conducive to change have already become more powerful than those anchoring the existent form in being.

The ingredients of Faulkner's novels and stories are by no means new with him, and most of the problems he takes up have had the attention of authors before him.

It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.

With the knowledge that the kingdom comes by obedience to the moral law in our relations with all people, we have a firm intellectual grasp on both the means and the ends of our lives.

Somehow, the pictures and stories of Soviet T-34 tanks on Cuban beaches and Russian Mig jet fighters strafing rebel troops has brought home to all of us the stark, blunt truth of what it means to have a Russian military base 90 miles away from home.

Continuing technical problems involved in the use of this fuel, coupled with significant improvements in aircraft range through other means, have now raised serious questions about the value of the high-energy fuel program.

Nuclear weapons have given the world the means for self-destruction in hours or days ; ;

and now rockets have given it the means to destroy itself in minutes.

We would have the means to seek out and destroy the enemy's force -- whether it were fixed or mobile.

Where an opportunity to enjoy boating has not been created by bringing bodies of water to the people, means have been found to take the people and their boats to the water.

Without math the men who are continually seeking the causes of and the reasons for the many things that make the world go 'round would not have any means of analyzing, standardizing, and communicating the things they discover and learn.

If you can't see your way clear to have summer cooling included when building, by all means make provision for its easy adding later.

By 1937 he had clarified his intentions to serve his people: `` I have striven for clarity and melodious idiom, but at the same time I have by no means attempted to restrict myself to the accepted methods of harmony and melody.

The differences between onset age and completion age with respect to the corresponding mean age have been brought into juxtaposition by means of a series of arrows.

These things have been disseminated by other means, but always in the wake of extensive publication of analytic results.

There were two methods that could have been used for conducting the study within the resources available: ( 1 ) interviews in depth with a few selected companies, and ( 2 ) the more limited interrogation of a large number of companies by means of a mail questionnaire.

Nor have we remembered that in the melting pot of America the hundreds of isolated and semi-isolated ethnic, regional and occupational groups did not fuse into a homogeneous national unit until long after education and industrialization had caused them to cast oral tradition aside as a means of carrying culturally significant material.

`` It means that you have to get ahead ''.

He is by no means the country boy he might have been in the last century, down from the hills with bear grease on his hair and a zeal for book learning in his heart.

The climate and the events of the last decade, and the steady pressure of the `` cold '' war, have given Americans yet another means of avoiding self-examination, and so it has been decided that the riots were `` Communist '' inspired.

In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.