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I have encountered the ATOM type in the Win32api and also in the Acrobat API there is ASAtom.
As far as I can tell, atoms are keys for a hash table usually of strings to enable fast look up and share data between applications. Is this correct and what is the etymology of the atom type?
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After some extensive searching I noticed Prolog uses atoms, so there must be some origin to this word. It seems it used to refer to any single piece of data.
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This Atom package allows you to compile and run C++ and C within the editor. To compile C or C++, press F5 or right click the file in tree view and click Compile and Run . To compile C or C++ and attach the GNU Debugger, press F6 or right click the file in tree view and click Compile and Debug .
An atom table is a system-defined table that stores strings and corresponding identifiers. An application places a string in an atom table and receives a 16-bit integer, called an atom, that can be used to access the string.
Atom is a free and open-source text and source code editor for macOS, Linux, and Microsoft Windows with support for plug-ins written in JavaScript, and embedded Git Control. Developed by GitHub, Atom is a desktop application built using web technologies.
ATOM is a 16-bit Windows handle-like primitive. It's value is completely opaque to user-mode. It is not a pointer or an index.
typedef unsigned short ATOM;
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