An entity or plan which assists people in recovering from addiction through which an organized series of actions, usually including group discussion with people having the same problem.

plural of sustaining program

(programming) A top-down approach in computer programming based on simple high-level structures, resembling pseudocode, that are gradually fleshed out with details.

(programming) A declarative programming paradigm where changes to values are automatically propagated, without the need for explicit reassignment.

(programming paradigm) programming paradigm that models a program as a directed graph of the data flowing between operations, implementing architecture and dataflow principles.

(programming) A programming paradigm in which function definitions do not identify the arguments (or "points") on which they operate. Instead, the definitions merely compose other functions, among which are combinators that manipulate the arguments.

(programming) Code of reserved words and symbols used in computer programs, which give instructions to the computer on how to accomplish certain computing tasks.

plural of programming language

(mathematics) The branch of mathematics concerned with the minimization or maximization of a linear function of several variables and inequalities; used in many branches of industry to minimize costs or maximize production.

(programming) Programming in a style that, in lieu of assignment, uses procedure calls to bind variables to values, so that referential transparency is preserved.