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  sigil | Serbian | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
The term sigil may refer to:Sigil (magic), a type of symbol used in magic.
Sigil (computer programming), a symbol that must be attached to a variable name in some programming languages.
Sigil (city), a city in the Dungeons and Dragons setting Planescape.
www.babylon.com /definition/sigil/Serbian   (112 words)

  
  Sigil (computer programming) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In computer programming, a sigil is a symbol attached to a variable name, showing the variable's datatype.
Related to sigils is Hungarian notation, a convention for variable naming that specifies variable type by attaching certain alphabetic prefixes to the variable name.
Unlike sigils, however, Hungarian notation provides no information to the compiler; as such, explicit types must be redundantly given for the variables and the prefixes are not enforced, making them more prone to omission and misuse.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sigil_(computer_programming)   (335 words)

  
 sigil - Search Results - MSN Encarta
A sigil (pronounced // or //; pl. sigila or sigils) is a symbol created for a specific magical purpose.
The term sigil may refer to: * Sigil (magic), a type of symbol used in magick.
* Sigil (computer programming), a symbol that must be attached to a variable name in some programming languages.
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 sigil | Thai | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
Comics Sigil est un comics publié par CrossGen, scénarisé par Barbara Kesel puis Mark Waid, et dessiné par Ben Lai puis Scott Eaton, qui dura 42 épisodes.
Sigil, le comics publié par CrossGen;Sigil, cité de l'univers de Planescape.Un sigil est le premier caractère du nom d'une entité en Perl.Un sigil ou sceau est une figure graphique qui représente, en magie, un être ou une intention magique.
Sigil - Pianeta di Guerre StellariSigil - Città immaginaria nel videogioco ''
www.babylon.com /definition/sigil/Thai   (232 words)

  
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As computers, mdia and telecommunication technology continue to collect, manipulate, store, represent and transmit an ever-increasing flux of data, they are installing nothing less than a new dimension: the space of information.
Computer interfaces can be seen as allegorical machines--both fuse (and confuse) images with abstractions, tend towards baroque complexity, contain magical or hyperdimensional operations and frequently represent their abstractions spatially.
For computers are nothing if not hierarchies of code, higher-level programming languages descending into the decidedly unnatural machine language of ones and zeros.
www.digital-brilliance.com /kab/techgnos.txt   (7637 words)

  
 :::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄:::
Perl programs were originally Interpreter (computing) interpreted (although now they're run by a virtual machine).
a number, String (computer science) string or Reference (computer science) reference) *A list is an ordered collection of scalars (a variable that holds a list is called an ''array'') *A hash, or associative array, is a map from strings to scalars; the strings are called ''keys'' and the scalars are called ''values''.
All variables are marked by a leading Sigil (computer programming) sigil, which identifies the data type.
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Sigils in the realm of magic act a subconscious mnemonics that create change in either the magician or the world external to that magician.
A sigil seems like a complex set of parameters or arguments that are passed to the object model.
There are those states of timeless ‘gnoses’ that a programmer may employ or experience while programming to unify with structure of the code and outstanding problem that has been set (created).
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 Interests   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The first one would be when my mother got me into a computer lab class in junior high and I was exposed to computer gaming for the first time.
Already a fantasy fan, when a classmate brought in Ultima 2 and booted it up on one of the Apple II+ computers, I was blown away.
Until then, our real jobs were doing business programming and the game programming we did was on the side.
www.bradmcquaid.com /Interview.htm   (1534 words)

  
 perl
The truth of this is attested to by the persistent imperfections of other programs that undertake to parse Perl, such as source code analyzers and auto-indenters.Maintenance of the Perl interpreter has become increasingly difficult over the years.
Additionally, programs often use more memory than they would if written in a traditional language (such as C or C++).Embedding a Perl interpreter in a C program is not as simple as it might be.
At the same time, the Perl version number was bumped to 4, not to mark a major change in the language, but to identify the version that was documented by the book.Perl 4 went through a series of maintenance releases, culminating in Perl 4.036 in 1993.
www.dirpedia.com /perl.html   (5643 words)

  
 Barbelith Underground > Temple > CyberShaman anyone?
I have to respectfully disagree with the opinion that a computer program may hinder progress and is not a substitute for the original real-world actions.
I think that one of the things that people fail to overlook is that computer programming is the new magic of the scientific age.
What would happen would be that instead of drawing one hexagram as the answer to a question, the program would literally calculate thousands of hexagrams for one question, then taking the largest number of identical hexagrams from the pool of thousands as the answer to the question being asked.
www.barbelith.com /topic/15590   (1629 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Sigil (computer programming)
The best known example of a sigil in BASIC is the dollar sign ("$") appended to the names of all strings.
Larry Wall adopted BASIC's concept of sigils for his popular scripting language Perl.
However, as Perl is a dynamically typed language, the sigils specify not fine-grained data types like strings and integers, but general categories such as scalars, lists, and hashes.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Sigil_(computer_programming)   (175 words)

  
 Techgnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information, by Erik Davis
As computers, media and telecommunications technology continue to collect, manipulate, store, represent and transmit an ever-increasing flux of data, they are installing nothing less than a new dimension: the space of information.
In constructing environments that mediate between brains and information space, computer interface designers are already grappling with the phantasmic apparatus of the imagination, for these are questions for the dreaming mind as much as the analytic one.
Computer interfaces can also be seen as allegorical machines—both fuse (and confuse) images with abstractions, tend towards baroque complexity, contain magical or hyperdimensional operations, and frequently represent their abstractions spatially.
www.techgnosis.com /infoangels.html   (8186 words)

  
 Ruby Programming Language - Ruby programming language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Ruby has been described as a multi-paradigm programming language: it allows you to program procedurally (defining functions/variables outside classes makes them part of the root, 'self' Object), with object orientation (everything is an object) or functionally (it has anonymous functions, closures, and continuations; statements all have values, and functions return the last evaluation).
In contrast to Perl, variables are not obligatorially prefixed with a sigil.
(When used, the sigil changes the semantics of scope of the variable.) The most striking difference from C and Perl is that keywords are typically used to define logical code blocks, without brackets.
amice.clubblogs.com /amiceChina/purple_and_gold_weblog/Ruby_programming_language   (1733 words)

  
 Perl: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
All variables are marked with leading sigil (In computer programming, a sigil is a symbol attached to a variable name, showing the variables datatype....)
Its versatility permits versions of many programming paradigms: procedural (Procedural programming is a programming paradigm based upon the concept of the modularity and scope of program...)
C Sharp programming language[follow this hyperlink for a summary of this topic]
www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/perl   (8218 words)

  
 TOPY: Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth
Casting sigils is a highly effective form of sorcery and Sherwin provides a sound overview of the process.
If you're comfortable with invocation and evocation, have worked with sigils, talismans and the like, and have made some inroads into effective magick for yourself, then by all means GRAB this book and enjoy it.
It covers his work with sigils as a means of controlling the subconscious mind, the creation of a personal magical alphabet and the practice of the Death Posture.
www.topy.net /books.html   (2899 words)

  
 Sigil: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
A type of symbol (symbol: An arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance) used in magick (magick: magick is an alternate spelling of magic, coined by aleister crowley to differentiate...
In some programming language (programming language: (computer science) a language designed for programming computers) s, a symbol that must be attached to a variable (variable: A quantity that can assume any of a set of values) name.
See sigil (computer programming) (sigil (computer programming): more facts about this subject).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/sigil   (142 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- Quest for continued success
McQuaid's fascination with sword-and-sorcery computer games began as a junior high school student in Vista in 1984, when he was introduced to the early fantasy game "Ultima II."
At night, he and Clover wrote their first computer game, "War Wizard." Cooper, an art student at the University of California San Diego, designed the art.
The word sigil was taken from the name of a group of online players, or guild, McQuaid belongs to.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/business/20041019-9999-1b19mcquaid.html   (1323 words)

  
 Perl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, GUI development, and more.
The overall structure of Perl derives broadly from C. Perl is a procedural programming language, with variables, expressions, assignment statements, brace-delimited code blocks, control structures, and subroutines.
And long-running programs are rather fast and efficient compared to strictly-interpreted languages, at the expense of short programs suffering the overhead of the compile-optimize stage.
www.infothis.com /find/Perl   (4239 words)

  
 Disinformation :: How To Charge & Fire A Sigil By Playing A Video Game
The ideal state to be in to charge a sigil is one where the mind is blank, vacuous, and thus open to the influences of the sigil (Drury 2003).
Fighting games are ideal for sigil charging and firing for the simple fact that they require little thought and they tend to get your adrenaline pumping if you really get into the game.
So the next time you decide to charge a sigil, try playing a video game, and you will likely find that gnosis induced is just as mind altering, and reality changing as any other magickal approach one takes to charging a sigil.
www.disinfo.com /site/displayarticle2256.html   (1507 words)

  
 sigil - OneLook Dictionary Search
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Sigil : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
Phrases that include sigil: sigil bearers, sigil of baphomet
www.onelook.com /?w=sigil&ls=a   (167 words)

  
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First one has to sigilise the desire in any form that one may wish, but in all cases and especially this one, it must be very easy to visual- ise.
The practitioner holds his or her breath whilst being squeezed and the sigil is visualised as if burning with bright, white heat as its image is burnt into your mind.
Y by a sigil (love spell), it could be intersting to know what might happen if the pertinent sigil were charged by myself.
mysteria.com /pub/culture/wicca/BoS/1402-500.TXT   (11189 words)

  
 Autobots: The MICOP Unit - www.ezboard.com
Vos was clearly becoming a pro-Decepticon city, where the majority of the inhabitants proudly had the purple sigil emblazoned on their bodies, and the number of bots with the red Autobot symbol were becoming fewer and fewer.
Hand-Held Data Computer: Another piece of stolen equipment, Banzai aquired this from a dead soldier on the same battlefield he got the gatling-gun on.
He has suped this computer up to be able to hack into most security systems without detection.
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 David Mercer's Web Presence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
I have noticed that at many American universities, including the one I am currently attending, that Computer Science is a BS rather than a BA degree.
To me this makes no sense, as computer programming is much more of a creative art than a science.
All of which is much more akin to learning a new programming language, with all of its attendant new metaphors and abstractions.
davidmercer.nfshost.com   (2004 words)

  
 Rancho's Internship Collaborative   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
If you meet the program's and employer's requirements, you will be placed in the internship.
For interns pursuing a career in computer programming, software development, web page design, networking, systems administrator or computer repair.
For those following the career paths of architecture and drafting, engineering, computer programming, graphic design or animation, construction, automotive technology, and biotechnology.
vas.vusd.k12.ca.us /options/s2c/internship.html   (315 words)

  
 National Novel Writing Month - National Novel Writing Month
Yuri watched in silence, a small smile of relaxation on her face as he pulled out his sigil.
Vandt fumbled with the sigil, orienting it toward the altar, and placed it securely into a depression on the circuit-gridline in the floor in front of his mat, pressing it into place with his marked hand.
A faint green glow lifted off his mark and sigil, and tiny emerald lights like dancing fireflies moved softly along the length of the jagged gridline toward the altar.
www.nanowrimo.org /simpleinfo.php?uid=122973   (1517 words)

  
 Blue Rabbit: Looks Like a Tunnel to Me - Page 6 - OccultForums.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Well, perhaps it shows people the philosophy of electronics; it perhaps shows how computers and programs view the world.
Computers are the first thing since the invention of art that has provided us with a new kind of world- The physics of working with computer software
to look at a block of programming script and have no idea what it does but get a sense of...
www.occultforums.com /showthread.php?p=136633   (1207 words)

  
 Web Sudoku: walkthrough, review, discussion, hints and tips at Jay is Games
We did them in programming class a lot...
I really miss programming class and wish I didn't have to take summer break.
people who need hints or helper programs should be ashamed, its not a hard game at all, even a slow person can become fast with practice.
www.jayisgames.com /archives/2005/06/web_sudoku.php   (1387 words)

  
 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Cheats and Codes - PlatformCheats.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
There is a computer terminal inside the room.
Login to the computer and choose to hack into the Sith data files with T3-M4.
If you do not have enough Computer Spikes to slice the terminals, go to the door that Malak was behind, and bash it.
www.platformcheats.com /videogames/G23/XBox/Star-Wars-Knights-of-the-Old-Republic-cheats-codes.htm   (5960 words)

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