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Artificial languages for instructing computers to do steps of computation in order to complete tasks. They allow programmers to communicate with computers.

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Is there a programming language where 1/6 behaves the same as 1.0/6.0?

Yes, I just checked my TI-99/4A's built in TI BASIC. As it treats all numeric expressions as floating point, the division operation is floating point as well. TI BASIC READY >PRINT 1/6 .1666666667 …
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How DEP and ASLR play role in security?

Rather well-documented here: DEP ASLR The long and short is DEP keeps data from being executed as code, such as buffer overflow attacks and ASLR keeps malicious code from knowing where other bits o …
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Why might an ASP.Net website load slowly?

Five possibilities I can think of (aside from some advanced caching techniques and such): Improper sizing of the web server for ASP.NET (i.e. thought a server sized for classic ASP would be fine) Fo …
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Do you think that exposure to BASIC can mutilate your mind?

I think the exposure to most BASIC examples in the world are what mutilate programmers' brains, not the language itself. It's like the C# programmer who browses MSDN and doesn't think exception handl …