Pling vs Null - What's the difference?
pling | null |
(computing, dated) The symbol (an exclamation mark).
* 1989 , "John Littler, John Maher", Computers in the laboratory: a student guide to microprocessor interfacing
* 1994 , "C.P. Brown", HAhAhA'' (on Internet newsgroup ''comp.sys.acorn.advocacy )
* 1994 , Stewart Palmer, Mark Moir, Developing CD-ROM products for Acorn machines
* 1996 , "Tim Wiser", Pling thing revisited'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.acorn.apps )
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between pling and null
is that pling is (computing|dated) the symbol (an exclamation mark) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.pling
English
Noun
(en noun)- This illustrates the order in which bytes are poked into memory with the pling operator.
- IMO, prefixing a directory name with a pling so that a program within it is run when you double click on it is a rather untidy way to do things.
- Make sure that you consider ISO 9660 restrictions on the use of characters in disc, directory and file names. Only upper case alpha and numeric characters plus the underscore (_) and pling (!) can be used as legal characters.
- Acorn Computing used to be big offenders when it came to referring to applications by their pling -inclusive names. They loved it. Unfortunately it made their articles sound silly (for want of a better adjective).
Usage notes
* Associated with (Acorn Computers).null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.